Quotes of: Tree-of-life Keyword

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

The Restful Mind

Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze. Go out into the woods and sit under trees, Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.

Reality Check: A Collection of Poems

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.

The Roots of the Olive Tree

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.

Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

Shadow's Claim

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

Shiver

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

My Name is Mina

There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been. The stillness of the central sea.

In Memoriam

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

Minaret

Dry snow coming down in the hills. Magpies hair-triggered and thuggish in worn trees. A wall has started to fall in you, it will take years to land.

Moosewood Sandhills

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

Molly Withers and the Golden Tree

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.

Molly Withers and the Golden Tree

We made love like two tree branches in winter. We were naked and motionless.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

The Naming

In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

In November

Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

But the stillness and the brightness of the day were as strange as the chaos and tumult of night, with the trees standing there, and the flowers standing there, looking before them, looking up, yet beholding nothing, eyeless, and so terrible.

To the Lighthouse

Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.

Legacy

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran