“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.” MindLooksPoetryViolenceCrazyStrengthPoetRootsSickViolentForestsAdmireNativePrimitiveCultFrontiers Book:Alms for Oblivion Source: Alms for Oblivion
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.” PoetryVoiceBornPoetGrewGrew UpRainRiversTownsForestsHillsRainy DayRaindropsTimber Author:Pablo Neruda
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.” InspirationalMayPoetryGrowsAliveTreeForestsGorgeousCemetery Author:Andrea Gibson
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” ThinkingLoveInspirationalPoetryNatureTreeGardenLovelyForestsBreastsGardeningNature BeautyPlant A TreeEcoBreastfeedingForests And TreesNature And BeautyGarden LoveInspirational GardeningThe Wild NatureNature's BeautyNatural GiftsArbor DayInspirational Tree Author:Joyce Kilmer
“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.” IfsHumansSaidPoetryWaitingBreakFeetApproachDeedsWoodsForestsFairyRidingFaerieBreak Off Book:The Annotated Emerson Source: The Annotated Emerson
“The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.” EndsEarthMotherPoetryFatherTreeWindRootsPaintForestsRainbowSighOur Father Author:John Denver
“Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.” PoetryFallWaterSunForestsFalling Leaves Book:Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars Source: Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars