Helen Hunt Jackson

Quotes

• “Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days;I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways;I know each day will bring its task,And, being blind, no more I ask.”
• “[A]ll lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.”
• “On the king’s gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him dead;And made his eldest son one daySlave in his father’s stead.”
• “The voice of one who goes before to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!”
• “There is nothing so skilful in its own defence as imperious pride. […] Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second; and so on till death.”
• “We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,—"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.”

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