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Opal Whiteley

“It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth — they have so many eyes.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind. And the wind in her goings does whisper them to folks to print for other folks, so other folks do have knowing of earth's songs. When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“... the brook that does go by our house is always bringing songs from the hills.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“She [Mamma] does say I am a new sance. I guess a new sance is something some grown-up people don't like to have around at all.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“The woods is gray in winter, when come cold days. And gray shadows walk among the trees. They touch one's face with velvet fingers, when one goes walking there in the woods. In the winter, old gray leaves grow to look like lace.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“Mud has so much of interest in it — slippery feels, and sometimes little seeds that someday will grow into plant-folk, if they do get the right chance.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“I like to sing when I have works to do — it does so help.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)
“And this I have learned: Grownups do not know the language of shadows.”
- Opal Whiteley,
- 1920, in Benjamin Hoff, ed., The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (1986)

Opal Whiteley, U.S. youthful diarist

(1897 - 1992)

Full name: Opal Irene Whiteley. Sometimes Opal Stanley Whiteley. She used several names but chose to be buried as Françoise Marie de Bourbon-Orléans.