Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). …

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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.2061, Delphi Classics
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Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. ✨ Edith Wharton (2002). Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse, p.16, Wildside Press LLC
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing o … ▶
There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry … ▶
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. ✨ Edith Wharton (2016). The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton, p.134, VM eB … ▶

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.2061, Delphi Classics

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