Frank Dempster Sherman quotes

“Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.”
-- Frank Dempster Sherman

Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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“And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.”
-- Frank Dempster Sherman

Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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“Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.”
-- Frank Dempster Sherman

Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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“It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.”

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

“There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.”

“Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.”

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

“Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.”

“Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.”

“Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.”

“In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”

“What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.”