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Joyce Kilmer quotes: Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

Joyce Kilmer quotes: For nothing keeps a poetIn his high singing moodLike unappeasable hungerFor unattainable food.

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

Joyce Kilmer quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is no peace to be takenWith poets who are young,For they worry about the wars to be foughtand the songs that must be sung.

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 quotes: But only God can make a tree.

But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer quotes: The air is like a butterflyWith frail blue wings.The happy earth looks at the skyAnd sings.

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

Joyce Kilmer quotes: There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

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

Joyce Kilmer quotes: I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

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

Joyce Kilmer quotes: Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

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

Joyce Kilmer quotes: 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

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

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