Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“Is it not rather ugly, one may ask? One collects material possessions not only for security, comfort or vanity, but for beauty as well.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
