3 Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes on Literature

Sarah Orne Jewett quotes on literature

2. The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper-whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

4. The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

6. We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge.