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  • When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

    Dream   Song   Pain  
    "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)
  • The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

  • Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

    Men   Thinking   Lakes  
  • Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.

    Sunset   Night   Flames  
  • You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to them: I am daughter of the earth and the star-covered Sky, and I descend from the Sky; and that you know; I burn and die of thirst; let me drink quickly of the cool water that gushes from the lake of Memory. And they will allow you to drink from the sacred spring.

  • Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

    "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)
  • When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

    Keys   Cities   Car  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

    Tree   Speech   Fruit  
    "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 56 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.
  • Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

    Sweet   Kings   Funeral  
    1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.
  • I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

    Book   Writing   Rivers  
    "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.
  • Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.

  • I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

    Dark   Night   Rose  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.112, Jester House Publishing
  • There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

  • When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

    Country   Tree   Hot  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

    Death   Dying   Green  
    "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)
  • Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

    Dog   Night   White  
    Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.181, Zillmann Publishing
  • Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

  • He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

    Lying   Woods   Cypresses  
    Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”
  • "I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

    Sister   Night   Age  
  • The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.

    "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter IX, Section 5,
  • And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

    Land   Silence   Mourning  
    George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.9, University of Georgia Press
  • Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

    Sweet   Growing Up   Nuts  
    Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”
  • Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

    Heart   Hands   Giving  
    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com
  • The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

    Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.380, Parkstone International
  • Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

    Sweet   Flower   White  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51
  • I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

    Boys   Quests   Tribes  
  • The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

    Spring   Air   Water  
  • Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

    Stars   Play   Shining  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288
  • Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

    Dream   Wind   Roots  
    George Sterling (1908). “A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems”
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