|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
A forest bird never wants a cage.
(Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist. Hilde, in The Master Builder, act 3.)
More quotations from:
Henrik Ibsen
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Plato; or, the Philosopher," Representative Men (1850).)
More quotations from:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
|
My great brother
Lord of the Song
wears the ruff of
forest bear.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Psalm Praising the Hair of Man's Body.")
More quotations from:
Denise Levertov
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode to a Nightingale (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
More quotations from:
John Keats
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
|
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Apemantus, in Timon of Athens, act 4, sc. 3, l. 347-8.
His cynical view of the state of Athens.)
More quotations from:
William Shakespeare
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
|
O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.
(Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Poppies in October (l. 10-12). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.)
More quotations from:
Sylvia Plath
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
|
... deeper
and deeper into Imagination's
holy forest, as travelers
followed the Zohar's dusty
shimmering roads ...
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Letter to William Kinter of Muhlenberg.")
More quotations from:
Denise Levertov
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
|
I was struck by this universal spring upward of the forest evergreens.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Chesuncook" (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 121, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
More quotations from:
Henry David Thoreau
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
|
See an old unhappy bull,
Sick in soul and body both,
Slouching in the undergrowth
Of the forest beautiful,
(Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
More quotations from:
Ralph Hodgson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
|
The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
More quotations from:
Mason Cooley
|
|
|
|
Poets
