Elinor Wylie
Elinor Morton Wylie, born Elinor Morton Hoyt, was an American poet and novelist.
She was the grandaughter of Henry M. Hoyt and a sister to Nancy Hoyt.
“I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.”
Elinor Wylie
“I was, being human, born alone;I am, being woman, hard beset;I live by squeezing from a stoneThe little nourishment I get.”
Elinor Wylie