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Elinor Wylie quotes: I bear a little more than I can bear.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Elinor Wylie quotes: My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me whereI bear a little more than I can bear.

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where
I bear a little more than I can bear.

Elinor Wylie quotes: If you would keep your soulFrom spotted sight or sound,Live like the velvet mole;Go burrow underground.

If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.

Elinor Wylie quotes: Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;The spring begins before the winter's over.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.

Elinor Wylie quotes: The winter will be short, the summer long,The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.

The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.

Elinor Wylie quotes: I was, being human, born alone;I am, being woman, hard beset;I live by squeezing from a stoneThe little nourishment I get.

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 quotes: In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Elinor Wylie quotes: I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie quotes: If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

Elinor Wylie quotes: When strawberries go begging, and the sleekBlue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,We shall live wellwe shall live very well.

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 quotes: I shall lie folded like a saint,Lapped in a scented linen sheet,On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,Narrow and cold and neat.

I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.

Elinor Wylie quotes: The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.