Gertrude Atherton Quote

The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.


Los Cerritos (1890)


The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of...

The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of...

The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of...

The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of...