The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze. - Martha Ostenso
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.
- Martha Ostenso
I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'. - Martha Ostenso
I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.
Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses! - Martha Ostenso
Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!
once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or… - Martha Ostenso
once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or…
A false vision was better than none. - Martha Ostenso
A false vision was better than none.
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference. - Martha Ostenso
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again. - Martha Ostenso
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion. - Martha Ostenso
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.
Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death. - Martha Ostenso
Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.
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