“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”
— Isabel Allende, book Portrait in Sepia
Source: Portrait in Sepia
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