Lizette Woodworth Reese Quotes

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Who is in love with loveliness,
Need not shake with cold;
For he may tear a star in two,
And frock himself in gold.
Who holds her first within his heart,
In certain favor goes;
If his roof tumbles, he may find
Harbor in a rose.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
Creeds grow so thick along the way,
Their boughs hide God; I cannot pray.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
For I have scattered seed
Shall ripen at the end;
Old Age holds more than I shall need,
Death more than I can spend.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

Lizette Woodworth Reese