Good and evil Quote by Vievee Francis

“An ending and a beginning now knotted up forever. He expected the hues of the world to change to reflect that, but the earth…

— Sarah Pinborough

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't be together.…

— Nescio

“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

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

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

— John Keats

“Once upon a time, [...]. There was a world that was perfectly made and full of birds and striped creatures and lovely things like…

— Laini Taylor

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“I just can't get the poetry of the trees," he said.”

— Katherine Paterson

“Someday Even the oldest of the trees continues its wonderful labor. Hummingbird lives in one of them. He’s there for the white blossoms, and…

— Mary Oliver

“When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook with their…

— Kevin Powers

“Men must not cut down trees. There is a God. (He noted such revelations on the backs of envelopes.) Change the world. No one…

— Virginia Woolf