"From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm."

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Source : Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

Hamlin Garland

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“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.”
“The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.”
“I'm a very conceptual writer.”
“As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.322, Lulu Press, Inc
“Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.”
“I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.”
“Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.”
“If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.”

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