the inferred is always more effective than the obvious. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings fightinganimalfall Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings successfulsimpletwo No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings warpeoplethinking It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings life-and-deathdone Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings floridapassingmoving It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings horsedograin Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings understoodsilenceanswers Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dancingskywind Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings foreverboyspast It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings natureanimalcountry Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings nonconformityvarietymadness But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings blessingbeautifulbook Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dollarsexperiencewisdom no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings southernracismwhite For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lonelycitiesheart Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings strongbearsstuff You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings cattalkingson ...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings delicate-lifepiethinking Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings anxietybehindsgrief The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings testsbeauty
