Top 5 Mary Cantwell Quotes

#1. Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Mary Cantwell

#2. To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

Mary Cantwell

#3. Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

Mary Cantwell

#4. Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

Mary Cantwell

#5. The hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

Mary Cantwell

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