Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.
“Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.” Bret Harte
“Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.” Bret Harte
“But, when the goddess’ work is done,The woman’s still remains.” Bret Harte
“Don’t be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.” Bret Harte
“Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners … Read More
“And then, for an old man like me, it’s not exactly right,This kind o’ playing soldier with no enemy in sight.” Bret Harte
“Which I wish to remark– And my language is plain,– That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee … Read More
“Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it … Read More
“It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its … Read More
“It may be broadly stated that…..of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall … Read More
“Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.” Bret Harte
“Thiar ain’t no sense In gittin’ riled!” Bret Harte
“Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation’s hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, … Read More
“When folks find I ain’t afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I’m tellin’ the truth about my own.” Bret Harte
“The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.” Bret … Read More
“Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. … Read More
“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.” Bret Harte
“For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.” Bret Harte
“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to ‘develop’ my own photographic plates, and I haven’t a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that … Read More
“But still when the mists of doubt prevail,And we lie becalmed by the shores of age,We hear from the misty troubled shoreThe voce of children … Read More
“Each lost day has its patron saint!” Bret Harte