Literary Birthday – 6 December – Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer was born 6 December 1886, and died 30 July 1918.

Joyce Kilmer Quotes

1. I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree.
2. There is no place in which to hide / When Age comes seeking for his bride.
3. 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 was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees”, which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

Source for image
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilmer_1908_columbia_yearbook_picture.png
Columbia University (1908), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

by Amanda Patterson

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