Sarah Orne Jewett: Greatness

Sarah Orne Jewett was American novelist, short story writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.

Sarah Orne Jewett: 42 quotes0 likes

“Your patience may have long to wait,
Whether in little things or great,
But all good luck, you soon will learn,
Must come to those who nobly earn.
Who hunts the hay-field over
Will find the four-leaved clover.”

Sarah Orne Jewett

"Perseverance" in St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. X. (September 1883), p. 840

“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”

Sarah Orne Jewett

Letter to Willa Cather, quoted in the preface to The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1925)

“We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge.”

Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 7