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> [I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/i-would-rather-read-poetry-than-eat-my-dinner-any-day-it-has-been-so/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

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## More by Laura E. Richards

> [We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/we-know-our-neighbors-so-far-as-we-have-the-right-to-know-them-we/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/i-do-not-believe-in-confining-children-to-things-they-understand-they/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/i-eat-till-honest-i-felt-every-button-on-all-my-clo-es-the-folks/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/give-the-child-good-books-then-let-it-alone-don-t-plough-and-harrow/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/i-would-rather-read-poetry-than-eat-my-dinner-any-day-it-has-been-so/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/and-the-storm-went-on-it-roared-it-bellowed-and-it-screeched-it/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/read-the-bible-to-the-children-until-they-are-old-enough-to-read-for/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [ To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies \[the private women's club movement\] came like a new gospel ofactivity and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/to-thousands-of-elder-women-in-the-late-sixties-and-early-seventies/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [“...during the clear, calm days and years...we ought to be, laying by, as it were; storing up light and strength and happiness for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/during-the-clear-calm-days-and-years-we-ought-to-be-laying-by-as-it/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/once-there-was-an-elephant-who-tried-to-use-the-telephant-no-no-i-2/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

> [You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/you-couldn-t-find-nobody-deader-not-if-you-d-sarched-for-a-week-why/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

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