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“Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.”

Light Sides Morning Tree Enormous Branches Gray Veins Twigs Meticulous Bare Branches

Author:John Banville

“How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.”

“Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.”

Passion Tree Wind Holy Wave Lust Awful Branches Fierce Lightning Thunder Roaring Thunder And Lightning Bare Branches

Book:A Life of One's Own

Source: A Life of One's Own

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Source: Hemingway's Paris

“I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.”

Source: Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller

“On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening”

Evening Branches Autumn Crow Bare Branches

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.”

Years Light Tree Wind Cold Died Branches Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Love Moveable Feast Autumn Wind Bare Branches

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”

Ifs Knows Men Country Black White Race Wonder Tree Racism Hatred Plant Branches White Man Plant A Tree Bare Branches

Author:Jean Genet

“There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.”

Ifs Looks Enough Shows Water Nature Dog Winter Clouds Patterns Surface Branches Breeze Living Things Fur Ripple Lace Wild Dogs Bare Branches

Author:Brunonia Barry

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple tree.”

Earth Tree Sweet Summer Seasons Snow Thee Apples Branches Apple Trees Bare Branches

Book:Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

Source: Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge