Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes

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Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
Winter had stretched
Long chill fingers into the brown, streaming hair
Of fleeing October.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet
In wistful April days...

Alice Dunbar Nelson
It is dark, like the passionate women of Egypt; placid, like their broad brows; deep, silent like their souls. Within its bosom are hidden romances and stories, such as were sung by minstrels of old. From the source to the mouth is not far distant, visibly speaking, but in the life of the bayou a hundred heart-miles could scarce measure it.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or... art or self-expression.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
To an independent spirit there is a certain sense of humiliation and wounded pride in asking for money, be it five cents or five hundred dollars.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
And now—unwittingly you've made me dream
Of violets, and my soul's forgotten dream.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
The panoply of war, the martial tred of men,
Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken
Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death,
Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath—
But—I must sit and sew.

Alice Dunbar Nelson
Marriages might be made in Heaven, but too often they are consummated right here on earth.

Alice Dunbar Nelson