Poetry Quote by Yip Harburg

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

— Joyce Kilmer

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them…

— John Muir

There are two kinds of fools in the world like me, who writes quotes, the second he who do not understand why - what…

— Mak_786

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

“Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I. But when thou sayest fool remember well That fools do walk in foolish company.…

— Ian Doescher

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

— John Keats

“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”

— Joanna Russ

“I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools.…

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Katherine Paterson

“A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I love fools who don't know they are fools but hate fools that know they are.”

— Hmedon