Adelaide Crapsey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Fall #Tree #Sound
These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Fall #Snow #Silence
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Land #Wind #Sea
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Lying #Important #Suggestions
The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Wind #Tree #Chaos
I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Thinking

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

Adelaide Crapsey famous quotes

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