Simple Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or leaves:

“Such simple things,
And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“She’s taen out her little pen-knife,
Fine flowers in the valley,
And twinned the sweet babe o’ its life,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.”
—Unknown. The Cruel Mother (l. 9–12)