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“There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical tigresses look at you with fiery golden eyes... open your heart and feel the colors of magic blooming inside you.”

Feels Looks Heart Eye Song Grows Wonderful Magic Tree Color Poet Flower Golden Butterfly Fiery Blooming Open Your Heart Wonderful Places Golden Eye Tigress

Author:Laurel Burch

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”

Ifs Writing Mean Passion Fun Water Pieces Tree Poet Survival Deeper Accomplishment Working It Climbing Puzzles Lyrical

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”

World May Done Earth Rich Too Much Tree Poet Sweet Flower Rivers Lovely Golden Pleasant Tapestry Brazen

Book:An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Source: An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

“Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.”

“One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.”

Giving Looks Long Enough Able Stars Understanding Tree Rocks Fields Poet Bird Guides Tiny Butterfly Mammals Best Gift Wildflowers Reptiles Amphibians

Author:Marge Piercy

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.”

Ability Teach Cutting Heard Tree Teaching Poet Paper Rain Profound West Clouds Significant Emptiness Sheets Lamps Dharma Eloquence Interdependence Carrier Thich Nhat Hanh Rain Clouds

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I'm looking for a narrative. And that's a different kind of construct. If you're a poet and you put a line from your poem online, "The trees bending over gracefully," or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem.”

Kind Different Tree Poet Photograph Social Media Online Different Kinds Currency

Author:Stuart Franklin