Wylie

Famous quotes containing the word 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.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)

    “I was, being human, born alone;
    I am, being woman, hard beset;
    I live by squeezing from a stone
    The little nourishment I get.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)

    “The years go by in single file;
    But none has merited my fear,
    And none has quite escaped my smile.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)