Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindberghwas an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment, as well as the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1906
CountryUnited States of America
I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)
Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?
I think best with a pencil in my hand.
the nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too ...
To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.