Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes


I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.


Citations

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Thoughts Are Things." Poems of Power, W. B. Conkey Company, 1901, p. 24.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Born: November 5, 1850
  • Died: October 30, 1919
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author, Poet

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.