
“He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.”
Source: The Affair
Leaf by Niggle (1945)
“He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.”
Source: The Affair
March 7, 1798
This was turned into Coleridge's Christabel, lines 48-50:
There is not wind enough to twirl
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can.
Diaries
"Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
Misattributed
“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
“It looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every single branch on the way down.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 10, “An Abode of Ravens: Recovery” (p. 396)