Willis Gaylord Clark quotes
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“He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.”
-- Willis Gaylord ClarkSource : Willis Gaylord Clark (1851). “The literary remains of the late Willis Gaylord Clark: Including the Ollapodiana papers, The spirit of life, and a selection from his various prose and poetical writings”, p.445
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“I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.”
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“In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.”
-- Willis Gaylord Clark
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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“If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.”
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“Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.”
Source : "The Garden" l. 47 (1681)
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“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”
Source : 'Ode upon Eckington Bridge'
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