Quotes by Eugene Field

"No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."
Eugene Field
"All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."
Eugene Field
"But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese."
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Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood".