Quotes by Margaret Widdemer

About Margaret Widdemer:

Margaret Widdemer was a U.S. poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, shared with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers.
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And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes--

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He must have been delightful," she said, "when he was alive!

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He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington.

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And remember, Wallis, there's something the matter with Mr. Allan's shutters. They won't always close the sunshine out as they should." Wallis almost winked, if an elderly, mutton-chopped servitor can be imagined as winking. "No, ma'am," he promised....

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It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is havin...

Margaret Widdemer

But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries– The counselors who never change, the friends who never go, The old books, the dear books that understand and know!

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For some reason she found that Allan Harrington's attitude of absolute detachment made the whole affair seem much easier for her. And when Mrs. Harrington slipped a solitaire diamond into her hand as she went, instead of disliking it she enjoyed its ...

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Author Bio

  • NameMargaret Widdemer
  • DescriptionAmerican poet and novelist
  • BornSeptember 30, 1884
  • DiedJuly 14, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Poetry