Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates

"O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain"

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

"Our academic home was simple in its appointments, —so simple that Joy-of-Life and I often merrily quoted to each other the comment of a calling freshman: "When I'm old, I mean to have a dear little house just like this one, all furnished with nothing but books."