Quotes About Nature

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.