"Verse is the natural speech of men, as……" — Edward Thomas
"Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904"
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12 Quotes by Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas has 12 quotes on this site.
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove…
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on…
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home,…
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late…
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I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God…
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin…
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If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to…
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I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it…
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square…
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
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How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I…
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
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