Literary Birthday – 2 September – Eugene Field
Eugene Field was born on 2 September 1850 and died on 4 November 1895.
Eugene Field Quotes
- No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
- Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
- Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
- It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.
- The best of all physicians Is apple pie and cheese!
Eugene Field was an American writer, best known for his children’s poetry and humorous essays. After his marriage in 1873, Field did editorial work for a variety of newspapers, including the Denver Tribune. From his Tribune column, ‘Odds and Ends’, he gathered comic paragraphs to form his first book, The Tribune Primer. Field’s collected works in 10 volumes were published the year after his death, and two more volumes were added in 1900. He was known as the ‘poet of childhood’.
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by Amanda Patterson
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