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Maud Hart Lovelace

  • Memory walked through old men's minds like a choir boy swinging a censer.

  • But one dawn the swans fell like a yellow cloud on the pond.

  • I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.'

    • Maud Hart Lovelace,
    • in Barbara Stuhler and Gretchen Kreuter, eds., Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays ()

Maud Hart Lovelace, U.S. writer

(1892 - 1980)