Quote#Love
Patchwork? Ah, no! It was memory, imagination, history, biography,…
Quote byEliza Calvert Hall · 1856–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907), Hall, Eliza Calvert. Aunt Jane of Kentucky. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1907. Aunt Jane's Album p. 82..
English (original)
Patchwork? Ah, no! It was memory, imagination, history, biography, joy, sorrow, philosophy, religion, romance, realism, life, love and death; and over all, like a halo, the love of the artist for his work and the soul's longing for earthly immortality.
— Eliza Calvert Hall
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