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Elinor Wylie

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Elinor Wylie was a prominent American poet known for her modernist style and innovative use of language. Born on September 7, 1885, she was a leading figure in the literary scene of the early 20th century. Wylie's poetry often explored themes of love, loss, and the complexities of human emotions, and she is celebrated for her lyrical and evocative verses. She passed away on December 16, 1928.

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“The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.”

Dies Imagination Sun Moon Bird Wings Breasts

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“I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!”

Mind Art Judging Taste Essentials Tests Cooking Senses Noses Masterpiece Exquisite Very Deep Odor

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“An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.”

Ifs Source Stones Streams Dry Splits Steel Pipe Thirsty Drinkers

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“My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.”

Littles I Can Prayer Lord Strength Bears

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“Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.”

Years Lasts Grows Spring Winter Abundance Pigs Barrels Peaches Clovers Herring

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Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.”

Lying Cold Blue Paint Saint Prophecy Sheets Neat Linen

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“If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.”

Ifs Soul Sound Sight Your Soul Hiding Velvet Moles

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Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.”

Wells Lying Hope Blue Fruit Abundance Begging Live Well Strawberries Plums Beaks Blackbirds

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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.”

Able Heaven Imagination Hell Imagine Inheritance

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“In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.”

Life Years Philosophical Aging Smile Mask Files Outrageous My Smile

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Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.”

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“I bear a little more than I can bear.”

Littles I Can Bears

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Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.”

Long Fall Sweet Summer Shots Seasons Hot Fruit Winter Silver Autumn Sunny Fur Squirrels Tasting Amber Cider Falling Leaves

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Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.”

Love Looks Hate I Hate Bones Landscape Richness Puritan Marrow Immaculate

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About the Author

Born: September 7, 1885
Died: December 16, 1928
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 14

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