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.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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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.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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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.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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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.
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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.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.
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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
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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.
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The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
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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.
