Elinor Wylie quotes
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“In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press
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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”
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“If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.12, Kent State University Press
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“I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press
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“Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press
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“My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.100, Kent State University Press
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“An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”
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“I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!”
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“The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, “The Falcon”
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“Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press
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“The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press
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“If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.137, Kent State University Press
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“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.”
-- Elinor WylieSource : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press
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