Occupation: Author Birth: December 7, 1873 Death: April 24, 1947
Where there is great love there are always miracles..
Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere..
Success is never so interesting as struggle.
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'..
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of ….
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great..
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them..
The end is nothing; the road is all..
When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open..
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we h….
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface..
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort..
The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska..
[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sk….
The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one bre….
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own..
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young..
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm..
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of..
It takes a great deal of experience to become natural..
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while..