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> [I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/i-shall-lie-folded-like-a-saint-lapped-in-a-scented-linen-sheet-on-a/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

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## More by Elinor Wylie

> [“I was, being human, born alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; I live by squeezing from a stone The little nourishment I get.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/i-was-being-human-born-alone-i-am-being-woman-hard-beset-i-live-by/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [“The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/the-winter-will-be-short-the-summer-long-the-autumn-amber-hued-sunny/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken swish, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/pretty-words-poets-make-pets-of-pretty-docile-words-i-love-smooth/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [“I love bright words, words up and singing early; Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing; Warm lazy words, white cattle under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/i-love-bright-words-words-up-and-singing-early-words-that-are/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/the-bird-imagination-that-flies-so-far-that-dies-so-soon-her-wings/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/the-winter-will-be-short-the-summer-long-the-autumn-amber-hued-sunny-2/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [I bear a little more than I can bear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/i-bear-a-little-more-than-i-can-bear/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/when-strawberries-go-begging-and-the-sleek-blue-plums-lie-open-to-the/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/i-shall-lie-folded-like-a-saint-lapped-in-a-scented-linen-sheet-on-a/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/down-to-the-puritan-marrow-of-my-bones-there-s-something-in-this/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/i-am-better-able-to-imagine-hell-than-heaven-it-is-my-inheritance-i/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/if-you-would-keep-your-soul-from-spotted-sight-or-sound-live-like-the/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [“The morning after / my death” The morning after my death we will sit in cafés but I will not be there I will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/the-morning-after-my-death-the-morning-after-my-death-we-will-sit-in/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/an-old-earthen-pipe-like-myself-is-dry-and-thirsty-and-so-a-most/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

> [If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elinor-wylie/if-any-have-a-stone-to-throw-it-is-not-i-ever-or-now/)

[Elinor Wylie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elinor-wylie/)

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