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Aline Murray Kilmer
12 quotes
“When people inquire I always just state: "I have four nice children and hope to have eight.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ambition", st. 4. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 13
“St. Brigid, please keep My babies asleep!”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mother's Helper", refrain. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 14
“Deborah danced, when she was two, As buttercups and daffodils do; Spirited, frail, naïvely bold, Her hair a ruffled crest of gold.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Experience", st. 1. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 17
“My heart shall keep the child I knew, When you are really gone from me, And spend its life remembering you As shells remember the lost sea.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prevision", st. 4. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 19
“I shall not be afraid any more, Either by night or day; What would it profit me to be afraid With you away? * * * For there is only sorrow in my heart; There is no room for fear. But how I wish I were afraid again, My dear, my dear!”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Shall Not Be Afraid", sts. 1, 3. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 34
“There is a mirror in my room Less like a mirror than a tomb, There are so many ghosts that pass Across the surface of the glass.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mirror", st. 1. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 68
“For life seems only a shuddering breath, A smothered, desperate cry, And things have a terrible permanence When people die.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Things", st. 6. Vigils (1921), p. 14
“Smilingly, out of my pain, I have woven a little song; You may take it away with you. I shall not sing it again.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tour de Force". Vigils (1921), p. 41
“I sing of little loves that glow Like tapers shining through the rain. Of little loves that break themselves Like moths against the window-pane.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prelude", st. 2. The Poor King's Daughter, and Other Poems (1925), p. 16
“If I live till my fighting days are done I must fasten my armour on my eldest son.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Against the Wall", st. 1. Selected Poems (1929), p. 3
“I’m sorry you are wiser, I’m sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish, And I liked you better smaller.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: For the Birthday of a Middle-Aged Child", st. 1. Selected Poems (1929), p. 33
“Here, Cyprian, is my jeweled looking-glass, My final gift to bind my final vow: I cannot see myself as I once was; I would not see myself as I am now.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Aphrodite: With a Mirror", in The Outlook, vol. 133 (February 28, 1923), p. 400