Quotes from Mary Webb

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

We are tomorrow's past.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

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.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and it's murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.