Leaf Veins

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or veins:

    “... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)