"nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea."

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Source : Golden MacDonald, Margaret Wise Brown (1946). “The little island”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Margaret Wise Brown

#Summer Quotes #Rain Quotes #Winter Quotes

“But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but that word didn't capture his feelings, either. It was a little too... vague and soft around the edges. People liked ice cream. People liked to watch television. It meant nothing, and it didn't come close to explaining why, for the first time, he felt the urge to tell someone the truth...”
“I'm nice, and I show up on time.”
“I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.”

Source : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.
“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”
“Let him love none and be by none beloved!”
“An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.”
“Complaining is an insult to God.”
“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.”

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