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  • The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

    Country   Lying   Hero  
    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press
  • Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

    Sex   Food   Love Is  
  • Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

    Life   Tree   Fly Away  
  • In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

    Cities   Tree   Fields  
  • Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

    Doors   Tree   Waiting  
    Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr
  • Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color.

    Beautiful   Book   Dark  
    Maurice Thompson (2008). “Alice of Old Vincennes (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

  • If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

    Tree   Want   Crosses  
    P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

    Nature   Spring   Flower  
    Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
  • I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

    Flower   Order   Tree  
  • I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

    Spring   Tree   Doe  
  • His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment. This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.

    Men   Tree   Doubt  
    FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Aug 19, 2014
  • We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

  • The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

    Eye   Hair   Tree  
    "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.
  • Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

    1896 A Shropshire Lad, no.2.
  • Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

  • Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

    Death   Years   Tree  
    Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press
  • The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

  • I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

    Love   Romantic   Spring  
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 14" l. 35 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)
  • There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

    Tree   Made   Cherries  
  • From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

    Spring   Fall   Tree  
  • Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.

    Song   Morning   Spring  
  • Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

    Spring   Tree   Waiting  
  • I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

    Spring   Tree   Doe  
  • Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

    A Shropshire Lad no. 2, l. 1 (1896)
  • Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

    Sweet   White   Air  
  • Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

    Dream   Spring   Tree  
  • I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

    Lying   Cutting   Tree  
  • A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ.

    Distance   Flower   Years  
    Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.87, Ballantine Books
  • There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

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