Wilder

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“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

“I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I’ll be living a beautiful life. And that, too ... [ellipsis in source]”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

“Gaze on them, till the tears shall dim thy sight,
But keep that earlier, wilder image bright.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)