Ruth Pitter Quotes

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• All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
• What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.…
• One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
• Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,…
• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.
• And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of…
• To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent…
• I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.
• I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.
• There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something…
• Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good…
• I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion,…
• It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of…

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