“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, OhioSource: Winesburg, Ohio
“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.”Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, OhioSource: Winesburg, Ohio
“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night," he had said. "You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio"Death" Winesburg, Ohio (1919)