Zoë Akins Quotes

Englishmen are like that. They love life more and value it less than any other people in the world.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

And have we lost the right </br> To look on a blooming bough </br> Without remembering how </br> Once with high promising </br> We were a part of spring— </br> We who are now the dead </br> Leaves of other years strewn where flowers spread?

Forgetting is the cost </br> Of living cheerfully.

Work alone qualifies us for life, Sentoni. It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

... there's a great strangeness about love. ... Yes, I'm very sure that love is the strangest thing in the world—much stranger than death—or—or just life.

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

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

The Greeks had a word for it.

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