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The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion. -- Paul Gauguin
This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions. -- Carl Sandburg
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March -- Jane Hirshfield
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. -- Robert Aris Willmott
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air. -- Alexander Smith
I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern. -- Wilson Rawls
The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red. -- Paul Scherrer
...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... -- John J. Geddes
A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through. -- E. Nesbit
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. -- Richard Selzer
I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can -- Sylvia Plath
Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen. -- Harry Chapin
I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red. -- Jarod Kintz

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