Welcome to the web’s most comprehensive site of quotations by women. 43,939 quotations are searchable by topic, by author's name, or by keyword. Many of them appear in no other collection. And new ones are added continually.
Search by Topic:
Find quotations by TOPIC (coffee, love, dogs)
or search alphabetically below.
Search by Last Name:
Search by Keyword:
Mary Carolyn Davies
-
“I sat on a broad stone / And sang to the birds. / The tune was God's making / But I made the words.”
-
“Pain / Rusts into beauty, too. / I know full well that this is so: / I had a heartbreak long ago.”
-
“The dead make rules, and I obey. / I, too, shall be dead some day.”
-
“The talking oak / To the ancients spoke. / But any tree / Will talk to me.”
-
“... my thoughts are sea-gulls / Lifting out to sea.”
-
“... I shall never be afraid / Even of life; / And who that does not fear life can fear Death / Which is so much a lesser thing?”
-
“... there is no woe the forest can not heal, nor any grief.”
-
“The desert is a nun, for no man's wooing, / Vowed to eternal silence through the years, / Serene, unchangeable, past all pursuing, / And all neglect. The desert knows no tears.”
-
“We are made whole / By books, as by great spaces and the stars.”
-
“I never wanted what I thought I wanted / But always something else / Which changed again as soon as I had found it.”
-
“Women are door-mats and have been; / The years those mats applaud — / They keep their men from going in / With muddy feet to God.”
-
“We've found that fairyland is everywhere — / You open up a book and, why, you're there!”
Mary Carolyn Davies, U.S. poet, songwriter, playwright
(1892 - 1941)