“Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.” TreeSkyPagesWaveGrammarPavementSkyscraper Book:Motherless Brooklyn Source: Motherless Brooklyn
“Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.” WorldWritingFirstsHeartBeautifulEvilReadingLinesTreeStrangeBabyPagesDevilPopsGorgeousSpillingBombshellsBest Poem Author:Zachary Schomburg
“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.” PeopleIfsBeautifulFacesNightSidesSpaceSilenceBeautyTreeSkyEventsObjectsPaintingFlowerPagesUniqueGainsEmptyNotesCornersSignificantGrassAutumnSignificanceCandleCasualFramed Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.” KnowsFeelsWritingTryingIdeasEnoughPlayAbleTreePagesThirdsFortunateGradesGood WritingCulminationThird Grade Author:Dallas Roberts
“I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantDoneWrittenTreePagesStonesConstruction Author:Ralph Eugene Meatyard
“Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!” ChildrenSaidBookShowsFatherTreeAdventureTastePagesCrowdsPursueRanHoneyMaryBeesSweetnessKnowledge And Wisdom Author:Patricia Polacco
“Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)” MomentsJoySinTreePagesDeserveWineFruitGentlenessBudRare Moments Author:Joanne Harris
“He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.” FallGenerationsTreePagesSeptemberBreezeCertificates Book:Everything Is Illuminated Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.” MenWorldMayDoeBookEarthFacesLanguageChanceMagicTreeFansLandThis WorldWindKingsCreaturesPagesBirdUnderstoodRainCastsBlowYour FaceVoidRavensWild Creatures Author:Susanna Clarke
“Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.” HeartBookTreePagesLeafs Author:Saadi