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Quotes from The Hills Grow Smaller — Zoe Akins

1886–1958 United States

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The nostalgia—
not of memories
But of what has never been!

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

In all my locked-up songs
No one but you belongs.

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

Forgetting is the cost
Of living cheerfully.

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

Indifferent to all the fun of chance
I watched black spiders of inertia spin
The far-flung web which I was strangling in.

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

I know not where I go; I scarcely feel
The menacing fatigue about my feet,
The skies that scourge, the distances that cheat, the constant wounds that never hurt nor heal.

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

So much do I love wandering,
So much I love the sea and sky,
That it will be a piteous thing
In one small grave to lie!

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

And they shall know that in the ordering
Of every world to come the law shall read
That he who dares be lawless wears the wing
Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead
On through the darkness to eventual light,
To undiscovered wealth, to newer need. ...

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

Mine was a love so exquisite that I
Rather than watch it wither chose to die:
So dress my grave, O friend, with no poor flower
Which in your quiet garden blooms an hour!

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zoe Akins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.