Citas de Anne Bradstreet

• Si no tuviéramos invierno, la primavera no sería tan agradable; si no probáramos a veces la adversidad, la prosperidad no sería tan bienvenida.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspiración, Vida, Agradecimiento

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• La autoridad sin sabiduría es como un hacha pesada sin filo: más apta para magullar que para pulir.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Leadership, Business, Authority And Power

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Sweet, May, Littles

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• Si no tuviéramos invierno, la primavera no sería tan agradable.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Life, Inheritance

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• ¿Qué le daré a mi Salvador, que ha hecho esto por mí? Le serviré aquí mientras viva, y le adoraré en la eternidad.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Done, Eternity, Saviour

  Anne Bradstreet, “By Night When Others Soundly Slept”

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• I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Gold, East, Riches

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Together, Firsts, Would Be

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Wish, May, Sun

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Female, Tongue

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Ignorant, Age, Youth

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Si alguna vez dos fueron uno, entonces seguramente nosotros. Si alguna vez un hombre fue amado por su esposa, entonces tú.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love, Marriage, Couple

  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" l. 1 (1678)

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• There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Wise, Spiritual, Evil

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• If what I do prove well, it won't advance.
  They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Memorable, Chance, Action

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• My hope and treasure lies above

  Anne Bradstreet

  Lying, Treasure

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Life, Cities, May

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Griego

  'The Prologue' (1650)

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• My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
  Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
  Thy love is such I can no way repay,
  The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Famous Love, Love Is, Rivers

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Tongue, Fit

  "The Prologue" l. 25 (1650)

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• Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Bait, Too Late

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• That when we live no more, We may live ever

  Anne Bradstreet

  Mayo

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Anger, Fire, Wind

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Press

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• La juventud es la época de conseguir, la madurez de mejorar y la vejez de gastar.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, Youth, Middle

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Lying, Spring

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Laborers, Hard

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