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

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

Zoë Akins

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About Zoë Akins

Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.

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Alternative Names: Zoe Akins • Zoe Byrd Akins

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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!

TILLERTON: "To him that hath it shall be given—" She hath ... that's all. That's greatness. PRESCOTT: One sort of greatness, maybe. TILLERTON: Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness. PRESCOTT: And it's often only that they're great sponges. TILLERTON: Often, yes, or great roses for whose blooming the trees have been pruned and stripped. But they make the beauty of the world and that's enough.

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