Elinor Wylie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Years #Aging #Mask
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
-- Elinor Wylie

#Imagination #Heaven #Inheritance
If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.
-- Elinor Wylie

#Soul #Hiding #Your Soul
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 #Saint #Cold
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 #Abundance
My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.
-- Elinor Wylie

#Strength #Prayer #Lord
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
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
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
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

#Hate #Looks #Landscape
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
I bear a little more than I can bear.
-- Elinor Wylie

#Littles #Bears
If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
-- Elinor Wylie

#Stones
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 #Abundance

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