A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

#SarahOrneJewett, poet and novelist (3 Sep 1849-1909)

"Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world."
-- Sarah Orne Jewett

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"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

✒ #SarahOrneJewett, American novelist, short story writer and poet, was #BOTD 3 September 1849. #Literature

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett held up in front of a green hedge

Reading The Country of Pointed Firs by #SarahOrneJewett – admired by Henry James and recommended by @thesecondshelf.bsky.social, it would work brilliantly for the @neglectedbooks.com’s wafer-thin book list. 📚

The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett Another book I have long heard of but never read! It did not feel like I was reading fiction, but that I was reading a memoir of a woman’s sojourn on a small Maine island filled with colorful…

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My first read of a classic
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