Autumn Quote by Ruth Pitter

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or…

— Ruth Pitter

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…

— Ruth Pitter

I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

— Ruth Pitter

To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these…

— Ruth Pitter

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…

— Ruth Pitter

“Solitary is our place, the castle in the sea, And I muse on those I have loved, and on those who have loved me.”

— Ruth Pitter

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition…

— Ruth Pitter

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

— Ruth Pitter

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view…

— Ruth Pitter

We go in withering July To ply the hard incessant hoe; Panting beneath the brazen sky We sweat and grumble, but we go.

— Ruth Pitter