Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886 – October 30, 1968) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. She is noted (with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson) as one of the founders of the American libertarian movement.

Read more about Rose Wilder Lane:  Early Life, Early Career, Marriage and Divorce, Freelance Writing Career, Literary Collaboration, Journalism, The Discovery of Freedom, Later Years, Bibliography, In The Media

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    Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
    —Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1965)

    air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
    each is accepted into as much light as it will take,
    Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
    Far off a precise whistle is escheat
    To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)