“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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“Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air”
" To Earthward http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-earthward-2/", st. 1 (1923)
1920s

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
Variant translation: It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
Source: Confessions

Gramsci cited in Davidson, 1977, p. 70.

To the Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer. It is how it is written that makes a book acceptable, as a work of art, or unacceptable and pornographic. There are many books circulating today, for the teen-ager as well as the grown up, which would not have been printed in the fifties. It is still amazing to me that A Wrinkle In Time was considered too difficult for children. My children were seven, ten, and twelve while I was writing it, and they understood it. The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.

“There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.”
A Ballad of too much Beauty.

November, 1933
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)