Rachel Field
Rachel Field
Rachel Lyman Fieldwas an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 September 1894
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
american-novelist held left pain realities
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
easily persons principles public swayed
The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
games waiting magic
Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.
scandal way catching
And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.
jealousy envy people
When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
fire plenty
There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
hope cutting roots
No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
principles persons knows
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
sight littles towns
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
weakness weak terrible
It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.
memories children book
I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.
pain reality faded
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.
confused ambition thinking
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
wind fire public-opinion
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.