Occupation: Author Birth: March 21, 1905 Death: February 22, 1978
If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion..
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure..
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime..
How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side..
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps..
Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live a….
In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual pat….
Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or….
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself..
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And c….
The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls..
What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you..
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations..
Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on….
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the nobl….
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the ca….
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges..
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish..
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Un….
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their tu….
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.