A Quote by Robert Fuller Murray

...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

Robert Fuller Murray

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Aged Chief Flower Leaf Mighty Power Tender Winter

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Robert Fuller Murray
Poet
1863 - 1894

All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

Janet Frame

Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

Andre Aciman

I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.

Pico Iyer

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

Emma Lazarus

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

Joyce Carol Oates

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

Elizabeth I

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'