Rachel Field
Rachel Field
Rachel Lyman Fieldwas an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 September 1894
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
easily persons principles public swayed
The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
principles persons knows
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
american-novelist held left pain realities
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
summer autumn winter
Something told the wild geese It was time to go. Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, "snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, luster-glossed, But beneath warm feathers Something cautioned, "frost." All the sagging orchards Steamed with amber spice But each wild breast stiffened At remembered ice. Something told the wild geese It was time to fly- Summer sun was on their wings, Winter in their cry.
tired firefly thinking
Isn’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when you’re with some other ones It’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!
sight bird experience
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
book writing old-friends
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
wind fire public-opinion
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
happiness oasis desert
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
confused ambition thinking
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
horse rain fall
...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.
ambition differences feelings
The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
pain reality faded
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.
memories children book
I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.