Acorns Quote by Henry David Thoreau

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

— Henry David Thoreau

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

— John Keats

“Poetry is the image of man and nature”

— Wordsworth William

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular.…

— Anna Quindlen

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm,…

— James Fenton