Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes & Sayings

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ... — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl ... — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Didacticism is the death of art ... — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or ... art or self-expression. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine. — Alice Dunbar Nelson