"O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!"

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Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.98, Courier Corporation

Edgar Lee Masters

#Nature Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.”
“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”
“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”
“A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want”
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”
“It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”
“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.”
“It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.”

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