Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer

But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer

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

Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.