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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Never
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Experience
Actuality
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Apprehension
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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