Elinor Wylie Quotes

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Elinor Wylie

Tags: fear, smile, single, years

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie

Tags: imagination, i am, hell, better

About Author

Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry."

I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moths,...

Elinor Wylie

I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moths,...

Elinor Wylie

Tags: words

If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.

Elinor Wylie

If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.

Elinor Wylie

Tags: positive