Backyards Quote by Christian Wiman Download Open image “Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.” — Christian Wiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backyards Epiphany Garden Nature Poet Poetry Tripping Walks
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing… — Theo Dorgan Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
From seed to tree I grew so tall, through wind and rain I could not fall. But now my branches suffer and my leaves… — The Beach Boys Copy Share Image
I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals and artists concerned with faith tend to underestimate the radical, inviolable innocence it requires. We read and read, write long, elaborate essays and… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“How many loves fail because, in an unconscious effort to make our weaknesses more strong, we link with others precisely at those points? How… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing how sometimes merely to talk honestly of God, even if it is only to articulate our feelings of separation… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
He wanted to go running home to Mommy, what can I say? Of course, it's hard for me to believe that anyone would choose… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
