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Joyce Kilmer Quotes



Quotes by Joyce Kilmer - (5 quotes)

Joyce Kilmer - From the Aging category:

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)

Joyce Kilmer - From the Earth category:

The air is like a butterfly / With frail blue wings / The happy earth looks at the sky / And sings. (Joyce Kilmer)

Joyce Kilmer - From the Fire category:

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. (Joyce Kilmer)

Joyce Kilmer - From the Journey category:

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)

Joyce Kilmer - From the Poetry category:

I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree / ...Poems are made by fools like me, / But only God can make a tree (Joyce Kilmer)