Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes

#1. Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

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#2. Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl ...

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#3. Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

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#4. It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

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#5. Didacticism is the death of art ...

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#6. I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

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#7. The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...

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#8. Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

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#9. Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

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#10. In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or ... art or self-expression.

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#11. I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days.

Alice Dunbar Nelson