| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32611 |
| QUOTATION: | I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), U.S. poet. Poetry (Chicago, Aug. 1913). Trees, Trees and Other Poems (1914).
Ogden Nash wrote a riposte: “I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.” (Song of the Open Road in Happy Days, 1933). |
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