#w

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#book #challenging #different #each #own

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#heavy #mist #remote #sob #spin

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#between #different #england #know #people

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. ↗

— John James Audubon

#again #america #any #beside #comfort

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deepest #forests #frequently #i #me

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. ↗

— John James Audubon

#becoming #desirous #fervently #grew #i

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? ↗

— John James Audubon

#books #could #dozen #enough #how

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. ↗

— John James Audubon

#dull #enthusiastic #geography #hard #i

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deal #drawings #finish #first #great