William Shakespeare Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Tree Quotes

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

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I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

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No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Roots Quotes , Tree Quotes

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

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