Poetry Quote by Pat Conroy

“Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.”

— Anonymous

“And she saw herself cooking, baking, canning and working a little in the orchard.”

— Robyn Carr

“Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat…

— Tom Robbins

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." [ Give me the splendid silent sun ]”

— Walt Whitman

“They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.”

— self

“She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them.”

— Betty Smith

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

“Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“My favourite word: FRUITION.”

— Grant McLachlan

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her.…

— Nadifa Mohamed

“She had a beautiful voice, slow, rich, and deep, a voice that thoroughly frosted its phrases and laid them out like so many carmel…

— Deborah Johnson

“She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker