Mary Carolyn Davies quotes
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“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.”
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“The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.”
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“We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.”
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“The cry of my body for completeness. That is a cry to you.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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"
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Source : 1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).
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Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
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“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.50, Mondial