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“I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My…

— Rae Carson

“...somewhere there is a Dona of tomorrow, a Dona of the future, of ten years away, to whom all of this will be a…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.”

— Wallace Stegner

“Angus was courting me with lines that stabbed deep in lonely, barren places. Like an unfair conqueror, he was delivering his words with an…

— Cheryl R Cowtan

“And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable to detect…

— Martin Amis

“...but I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together into sounds…

— Azar Nafisi

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”

— Horace

“...and when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was a Band…

— Peter Ackroyd

“We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now. Squatters, and only squatters, were the true…

— André Aciman

“To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the…

— Sarojini Naidu

“Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks…

— Juvenal

“Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons.”

— Lao Tzu