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Ellen Glasgow, an American novelist, was born on April 22, 1873, and died on November 21, 1945. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and critical portrayal of the Southern society.

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Famous Ellen Glasgow Quotes

“If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.”

Ifs Heart Would Be Earth Grief Broken Moon

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.”

Giving Earth Young Heaven Chance Half Youth Heaven And Earth

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.”

Earth Views Sky Habit Point Of View Grain Communion Refined Transcendental Earth And Sky

Book:Works

Source: Works

“... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”

Life Reality Earth Approach Ordinary Direct Universal Surface Realism Universality Direct Approach

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.”

Ifs Earth Perfect Air Flower Spring Filled Afternoon Scent Vague Sweetness Roving

Book:The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Miller of Old Church

“. . . 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.”

Love Has Beens Earth House Names Natural Animal Tree Sky Special Fields Identity Flower Creatures Bird Endure Woods Grass Kinship Natural Things Inarticulate Earth And Sky

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.”

Men World Mind Wells Matter Earth Force Felt He Man Great Things Revelations Farmers Small Things Farming Rebellious Undone Farming And Farmers

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.”

Heart Earth Faces Healing Week Strange Spring Moved Rising Restlessness Sap

Book:The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Miller of Old Church

About the Author

Born: April 22, 1873
Died: November 21, 1945
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 191

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Vein of IronRelated source material

Letters of Ellen GlasgowRelated source material

The DescendantRelated source material

Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with WomenRelated source material

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The Voice of the PeopleRelated source material

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