Quotes of: Tree Keyword

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

...because my life without you would be a place of parched and broken trees...

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

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

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Lolly Willowes

Rivers don’t drink their own waters; trees don’t eat their own fruits. The salt seasons the soup in order to have its purpose fulfilled. Live for others!

Leaders' Watchwords

When we were on trees, others had lived in skies. When we reach skies, descendant of primitives will someday convey this message.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

My Antonia

A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow, And remember there was something else I was hoping for.

Selected Poems

Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms.

Springwater

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.

Spellweaver

If I were an alcoholic, I’d work at a wine farm, where grape booze grows on trees, bottled and ready to chug.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

The Singing Tree