Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
Mary Gladys Webbwas an English romance novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger based on the novel of the same title.
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About the Mary Webb
Mary Gladys Webbwas an English romance novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger based on the novel of the same title. The novels are thought to have inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons.
6 Quotes by Mary Webb
- 1.
We are tomorrow’s past.
Mary WebbEnglish writer 1881-1927
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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Mary WebbEnglish writer 1881-1927
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Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary WebbEnglish writer 1881-1927
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.
Mary WebbEnglish writer 1881-1927
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Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
Mary WebbEnglish writer 1881-1927
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Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Mary WebbEnglish writer 1881-1927