Joyce Kilmer Quotes

#1. Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

Bryant McGill

#2. The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

Joyce Kilmer

#3. I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

Joyce Kilmer

#4. I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man ... A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

Joyce Kilmer

#5. I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Joyce Kilmer

#7. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

Joyce Kilmer

#8. There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the songs that must be sung.

Joyce Kilmer

#9. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

#10. I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Joyce Kilmer

#11. The mystery of Buddha's cure is this: What you seek you already are.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

Joyce Kilmer

#13. The pursuit of life is passion to seek the presence of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

Joyce Kilmer

#15. It's more than words & somehow more than actions could ever show. It's hard to explicate this feeling I have for you, but it's one I could live out the rest of my days trying to make you understand.

David Reeves

#16. Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree

Joyce Kilmer

#17. There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

Joyce Kilmer

#18. There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

Kameron Hurley

#19. A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Albert Einstein

#20. With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Rene Descartes

#21. The ancient house is our chrysalis, trapping us until our metamorphosis is complete: our chic city wings plucked from our backs and we'll emerge as fat, white farm larvae. Like the ones living in the corral cow pies.

Mix Hart

#22. The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

Joyce Kilmer

#23. No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.

Elisa Albert

#24. For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food.

Joyce Kilmer

#25. The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.

Joyce Kilmer

#26. Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

T.F. Hodge

#27. In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick,
Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime.

Joyce Kilmer

#28. Wow. You guys are like a broken record. Don't you ever get tired of the whole 'knock 'em our and drag 'em back to the cave' routine? 'Cause I swear, Cro-Magnons were more subtle.

Rachel Vincent

#29. It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

Joyce Kilmer

#30. Jurisdictie Prudentia :
Important : Legislation and Jurisdiction :
Justice conform : "Prudentia".
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Babaji
September 20, 2016

Petra Hermans

#31. I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Richard Madden

#32. But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

#33. Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.

Thomas McGuane