Joyce Kilmer Quotes

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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…
• I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house…
• I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God…
• The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one…
• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing…
• The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
• When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet…
• I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction…
• But only God can make a tree.
• Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

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