All Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
- Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. Came
- She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out… Among
- Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is… Case
- Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth… Bird
- It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… Branch
- Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to… All
- A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't Forget
- When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the… Answer
- ...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think… Bed
- The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge. Beauty
- No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. Doe
- The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia… Buried
- Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. Agony
- I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense… Became
- A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. Appreciation
- Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. All
- We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and… Affair
- Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. Beyond
- Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… All
- I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. Anyone
- Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. Answer
- We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion. All
- If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than… Affairs
- Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember Always Worry
- He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her Forget