"Spoon River Anthology" Quotes
A collection of free-verse epitaphs that collectively tell the secrets and stories of a small town's inhabitants.
poetry | 112 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
To be read by moonlight.
moonlight
The dead are dancing with the dead, the dust is whirling with the dust.
death
Be the best of whatever you are.
motivation
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
legacy
He was not a man: he was a mushroom.
insult
I had no time to hate, because the grave would hinder me, and life was not so ample I could finish enmity.
forgiveness
I am not the rose, but I have been near the rose.
identity
I dreamed that I was a rose that grew beside a lonely way.
dreams
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
naturespirituality
We are all the sons of God.
spirituality
