"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."

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

Elinor Wylie

#Hope Quotes #Lying Quotes #Abundance Quotes

“One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.”
“If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.”
“And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.”
“I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'”

Source : "How I fell in love with a fish". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.
“Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.”

Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org
“Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.”
“one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.”

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