- Anne Bradstreet died on 9/16/1672. “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
- William Carlos Williams was born on 9/17/1883. “Life is valuable–when completed by the imagination. And then only.”
- Upton Sinclair was born on 9/20/1878. “All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”
- Stevie Smith was born on 9/20/1902. “My Muse sits forlorn/She wishes she had not been born/She sits in the cold/No word she says is ever told.”
- Babette Deutsch was born on 9/22/1895. She graduated from Barnard College in 1917.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart died on 9/22/1958. “Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child…”
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Wow, the quotes are all so fantastic! Rinehart’s really hits a spot with me. I’m very aware I have been trying, desperately, to get back to this ONE moment in my childhood for my entire life. It’s looney.
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Yeah, sometimes I have better material to work with than at other times.
That is very interesting. May I ask what that moment was, in a nutshell at least? I am so curious now.
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I was about 3-4 years old, outside, walking barefoot in the summer. It was more of a feeling I had for a moment, so difficult to describe, like everything was connected and nameless.
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Oh, that is really sweet and wistful.
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