Anne Bradstreet Quotes
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Citations
Bradstreet, Anne. The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse. Edited by John Harvard Ellis, A. E. Cutter, 1867, p. 57.
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Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.