You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of…

- Sherwood Anderson

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

- Sherwood Anderson

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead…

- Sherwood Anderson

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

- Sherwood Anderson

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

- Sherwood Anderson

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

- Sherwood Anderson

I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the s…

- Sherwood Anderson

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

- Sherwood Anderson

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

- Sherwood Anderson