Elinor Wylie Quotes

• 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 Wylie

  Life, Smile, Philosophical

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, 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 Wylie

  Strength, Prayer, Littles

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.100, Kent State University Press

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• I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

  Elinor Wylie

  Imagination, Heaven, Inheritance

  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 Wylie

  Sight, Soul, Moles

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.12, 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 Wylie

  Spring, Winter, Pigs

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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• I bear a little more than I can bear.

  Elinor Wylie

  Littles, Bears, I Can

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.100, Kent State University Press

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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 Wylie

  Moon, Wings, Imagination

  Elinor Wylie, “The Falcon”

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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 Wylie

  Lying, Blue, Saint

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press

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• If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

  Elinor Wylie

  Stones, Ifs

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.137, Kent State University Press

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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 Wylie

  Love, Hate, Looks

  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 Wylie

  Summer, Sweet, Fall

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, 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 Wylie

  Steel, Dry, Splits

  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!

  Elinor Wylie

  Art, Judging, Cooking

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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 Wylie

  Hope, Lying, Blue

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press

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