Famous quotes containing the words true and/or histories:
“It was the words descended into Hades
That seemed too pagan to our liberal youth.
You know they suffered from a general onslaught.
And well, if they werent true why keep right on
Saying them like the heathen? We could drop them.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money. It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing ones best to express ones thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)