Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Reeve Aldrich

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Anne Reeve Aldrich.
Last updated on November 14, 2024.
Anne Reeve Aldrich

Anne Reeve Aldrich was an American poet and novelist. Her works include The Rose and Flame and Other Poems and The Feet of Love.

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
I bought the sweetness with this pain.
I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space. — © Anne Reeve Aldrich
I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?
Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.
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