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Zoë Akins
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“I am the wind that wavers, / You are the certain land; / I am the shadow that passes / Over the sand.”
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“Remember me as one who loved awhile / Life, and the splendid merriment I had ... / A runner laughing down the fleeting mile.”
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“To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!”
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“Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.”
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“Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that — but that's the only way one can stay married.”
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“The Greeks had a word for it.”
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“So many things are lost / From even memory — / Forgetting is the cost / Of living cheerfully.”
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“So much do I love wandering, / So much I love the sea and sky, / That it will be a piteous thing / In one small grave to lie!”
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“Ah, the homesickness — / Not for a home which I have left, / But for the strange places! / The nostalgia — / not of memories / But of what has never been!”
Zoë Akins, U.S. playwright, poet, writer, screenwriter, Pulitzer winner
(1886 - 1958)
Full name: Zoë Byrd Akins Rumbold.