Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

About Anne Bradstreet:

Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.

Anne Bradstreet

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

Anne Bradstreet

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." [ ]

Anne Bradstreet

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason Know ‘tis a sla...

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Bradstreet

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish." [ ]

Anne Bradstreet

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, no...

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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 wa...

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

That when we live no more, We may live ever

Anne Bradstreet

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

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

Author Bio

  • NameAnne Bradstreet
  • Descriptionpoet
  • Born1612
  • DiedSeptember 16, 1672
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author