242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: – that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn’t need it.

I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.

The hardest thing to believe when you’re young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn’t give the right things in sickness.

Borrowed illusions are better than none...

But youth isn’t happy. Youth is sadder than age.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, “O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!”

Life may take away happiness. But it can’t take away having had it.