"Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh.……" — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"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 was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky."
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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26 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved,…
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Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the…
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It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow…
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Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of…
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A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has…
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...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a…
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The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
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The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried…
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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I…
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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