“a single leaf falling
autumn is everywhere…”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 10
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Dutch painter 1909–2006Related quotes
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“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
James Clavell book Shōgun
Source: Shōgun (1975), Ch. 43
“And he that will to bed go sober
Falls with the leaf in October.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
Act II, scene ii. The following well-known catch, or glee, is formed on this song: "He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow".
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; published 1639)
“Tis not for Spring to think on all
The sear and waste of Autumn's fall:”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)
Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)
“Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!”
Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) Former dictator of the republic of Chile
Speech (October 1981), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet." This expression is not original to Pinochet; it is also attributed to Inca Atahualpa in 1531. See Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies.
1980s
