Branches Quote by Theodore Roethke

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.…

— William Blake

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

— Dorothy Richardson

“Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.”

— Kevin James Moore

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

— Karl Kraus

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We went on, cutting through the branches, and it was as if we were swimming through a sea of leaves, with the bushes as…

— Ayn Rand

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;

— Philip Larkin

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the…

— Rumi

“The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed…

— D.H. Lawrence

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

— Sloane Crosley

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

— Richard B. Garnett