Quotes from Lizette Woodworth Reese

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.