Anne Reeve Aldrich quotes
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“There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”
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“I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”
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“Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1889). “The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love”
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“Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
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“I bought the sweetness with this pain.”
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“All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
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“I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
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“I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.”
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
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“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.”
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“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.”
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“Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.”
Source : "Trash". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2013.
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