"Discontent", in St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 3 (February 1876), p. 247
Contesto: "Dear robin," said this sad young flower,
"Perhaps you'd not mind trying
To find a nice white frill for me,
Some day when you are flying?" "You silly thing!" the robin said;
"I think you must be crazy!
I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy. "You're nicer in your own bright gown,
The little children love you;
Be the best buttercup you can,
And think no flower above you. "Though swallows leave me out of sight,
We'd better keep our places;
Perhaps the world would all go wrong
With one too many daisies. "Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing."
Sarah Orne Jewett: Frasi in inglese
“I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy.”
"Discontent", in St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 3 (February 1876), p. 247
Contesto: "Dear robin," said this sad young flower,
"Perhaps you'd not mind trying
To find a nice white frill for me,
Some day when you are flying?" "You silly thing!" the robin said;
"I think you must be crazy!
I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy. "You're nicer in your own bright gown,
The little children love you;
Be the best buttercup you can,
And think no flower above you. "Though swallows leave me out of sight,
We'd better keep our places;
Perhaps the world would all go wrong
With one too many daisies. "Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing."
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 12
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
“So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 19
“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.”
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 7
"Perseverance" in St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. X. (September 1883), p. 840
"The Soul of the Sunflower" in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XXII (October 1881), p. 942
As quoted in Reader's Digest Vol. 130 (1987)
Country By-Ways http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/cbw/cbw-cont.htm, River Driftwood (1881)
Letter to Willa Cather, quoted in the preface to The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1925)
“Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.”
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 10
“The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.”
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 19
“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 16
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 15
“Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5
Samuel Johnson, in a letter to Bennet Langton, published in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791), by James Boswell
Misattributed
Origine: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 7
