Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
“Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.”
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a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been…" by Pablo Neruda?
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Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads
"A Match", line 1.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
Context: If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pasture or gray grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) English author, poet and diarist
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
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 3 Episode 3
On Biology
“And so I leave
On cruel winds
Squalling
And gusting me
Like a dead leaf
Falling.”
Paul Verlaine Chanson d'automne
Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m'emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.
"Chanson d'automne", line 13, from Poèmes saturniens (1866); Sorrell p. 27
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Ancestress (Spoken by Jaromir)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“a single leaf falling
autumn is everywhere…”
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 10