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Quote by William C. Bryant

“The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.”

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William C. Bryant was an American poet, born on November 3, 1794, and died on June 12, 1878. His poetry is known for its concise language and profound emotional expression, which has had a profound impact on American literature. more

“Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye tossed the air O'er maiden cheeks, that took a fresher glow; Ye rolled the round white cloud through depths of blue; Ye shook from shaded flowers the lingering dew; Before you the catalpa's blossoms flew, Light blossoms, dropping on the grass like snow.”

Light Hours White Air Wind Flower Blue Depth Rounds Clouds Currents Snow Grass Cheeks Bees Bores Unseen Dropping Flew Dew Maidens Lingering Murmuring White Clouds

Author:William C. Bryant

“Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.”

Failing Fairs Blow Poppies

Author:William C. Bryant

“It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.”

Thinking Would Be Pieces Nice Miracle Sticks Genuine Artistic Distinction Censorship Being Nice Seriousness Bans Sadism

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.”

Long Running Cases Effects Absolutes Censorship Long Runs Censored Censoring

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.”

Children Purpose Party Awful

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.”

Enough Return Letters Details Christmas

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.”

Thinking Age Horse Critics Old Age

Book:View from a Column

Source: View from a Column

“One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.”

Reason Dies Left Parent Audience Theater Shocking

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

People Ifs Trying May Long Next Seeing Ought Treats England Climate Impression Weather Painter Tuesday Clerks Bad Impression

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.”

Men Years Father Southern Railroads

Author:Nancy Grace

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