Mary Webb
Mary Webb
Mary Webbwas an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farm...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 March 1881
nature cutting opportunity
No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.
smell voice fragrance
Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.
autumn departure crowds
Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
marriage passion fire
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.
autumn
Autumn is full of leave-taking.
buckets providence wells
The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
blue may green
Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.
missing folks depends
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
education window bigs
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.
flower book garden
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.
poet aim knows
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
nature creative gold
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?
great-love people silence
Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.
thinking self way
it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.