Hope Jahren

You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.

American Scientist

Eavan Boland

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.

Irish Poet

Julia Glass

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

American Novelist

Tom Glazer

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

American Musician

Monty Don

Happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. It pops into your life unbidden, and then tends to pop out again. I'm on record as being depressive. It is related to winter.

English Celebrity

David Crosby

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

Susan Orlean

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

American Journalist

Unbidden often carries an emotional or introspective sense when referring to thoughts and memories.

Emotional Weight

Describes something that interrupts or invades without permission, especially thoughts or emotions.

Intrusive Nature

Used for things that arise suddenly or surprisingly, without a clear cause or reason.

Unexpected Arrival

Highlights actions taken without permission, sometimes seen as forward or rude.

Presumptuous Action

Describes someone appearing somewhere they aren't wanted or expected to be.

Unwelcome Presence

Conveys a sense of surprise or shock at someone showing up without an invitation.