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There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

Ellen Glasgow
Spring, Loneliness, Terrible
Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.207, The Floating Press

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

Ellen Glasgow
Spring, Writing, Civilization

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Ellen Glasgow
Spring, Flower, Air
Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.224, The Floating Press

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

Ellen Glasgow
Spring, Book, Light

Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

Ellen Glasgow
Running, Spring, Flames
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

Ellen Glasgow
Spring, Healing, Heart
Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

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