Lucy Larcom Quotes about Writing

All Lucy Larcom Quotes Childhood Children Earth Heart Poetry Soul Sunshine Writing quotes

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.

Lucy Larcom

Mistake, Writing, Thinking

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Lucy Larcom

Writing, Water, Ifs

Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.

Lucy Larcom

Girl, Memories, Writing

Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

Lucy Larcom Quotes about Writing

You May Also Like: