"I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down."

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Source : Eugene Field (1901). “A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay”

Eugene Field

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“I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.”

Source : "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.
“Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.”
“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”
“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .”

Source : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.
“Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.”
“The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.”
“A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.”
“The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.”

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