Mary Carolyn Davies quotes

“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“A good dog never dies.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“The cry of my body for completeness. That is a cry to you.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.”
-- Mary Carolyn Davies

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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”

Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"

“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”

“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”

“Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.”

Source : 1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

“The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”

“When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.50, Mondial