“You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs With rights and wrongs and arguments of good, You choke my songs and fill my mouth with hymns, You stop my heart and turn it into wood.”
Quotes by Iris Tree
“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One much disputed loyalty to an American Negro fired her to battle for recognition for his people, compiling and publishing her "Negro Anthology." Another friendship drew her to Spain during the Civil War, in which she participated actively on the side of freedom and composed a series of Spanish poems. Because of these and further deviations from the United status quo, she was refused permission to re-enter America, where she had hoped to join her closest companion, whose absence in Europe left her solitary at heart. On Nancy Cunard”
“We make a gaudy havoc of our life And live a thousand ages in an hour.”
Iris TreeIris Tree was an English poet, actress, and art model known for her vibrant personality and bohemian lifestyle. Born into a family of artists, she was exposed to the creative world from an early age, ...