Joyce Kilmer Quotes

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

Joyce Kilmer

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• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Said
  • Kiss
  • Mouth

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Never
  • Cancer
  • Mouth

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Tree

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Man
  • Day

• I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • World
  • Class
  • Mouth

• I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Tree

• No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Live
  • Want

• We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Tree

• But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • Tree

• Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plant?Anyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant.But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • High
  • Tree
  • Sky

• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • American
  • Man
  • Serious

• All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

  

  Jerry Orbach
  • Life
  • Job

• A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

  

  Marcy Kaptur

• Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Church
  • State
  • Separation

• My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Dream
  • Eye
  • Infinite

• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Tree
  • Poem
  • Mouth