Lizette Woodworth Reese Quotes

REESE, Lizette Woodworth Quotes

(1856-1935), American poet

Religion

Creeds grow so thick along the way their boughs hide God.

Tears

When I consider life and its few years—a wisp of fog between us and the sun; a call to battle and the battle done ere the last echo dies within our ears, I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Truth

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and blows them out.