Ethel Lynn Beers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
-- Ethel Lynn Beers

#Fall #Rivers #Forever
Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.
-- Ethel Lynn Beers

#Mother #Heart #Patient
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
-- Ethel Lynn Beers

#War #Quiet #Now And Then

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

Ethel Lynn Beers famous quotes

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