引用霍普金斯的這首詩作為此文的開頭,同時的也是本片題目的出處。
Spring and fall
To a young child
by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man,
You with your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! As the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leaf meal lie,
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for."