Brazilian-poetry Quote by Cassiano Ricardo

“Cut down no trees, for they are home to the birds you adore.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“... or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“...somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it flushed with…

— Marisha Pessl

“Basked in the sun, listened to birds, licked off raindrops, and only in flight the leaf saw the tree and grasped what it had…

— Vera Pavlova

“By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the…

— Lisel Mueller

“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang…

— Virginia Woolf

“Then came night that was like falling water. At times, for hours, a bird spirit, half buzzard, half swan, just above the rushes from…

— Peter Huchel

“And for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stumted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

— Buchi Emecheta

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten