Annie Charlotte Dalton

Annie Charlotte Armitage Dalton MBE (December 9, 1865 – January 12, 1938) was an English-born Canadian poet, sometimes known as "the Poet Laureate of the Deaf."

Quotes

 * "I will be strong! then let the billows roll Far o'er my head--they cannot hurt my soul; Deeper the swell, the higher soars the crest-- I reach my haven on its boundless breast."
 * Dalton, "Resolution" (first stanza), from The Marriage of Music (1910)
 * "The landscape, like a painted picture shone, Lined as an atlas in the window frame, In form, in character, for aye the same, But many moods writ each its tale thereon."
 * Dalton, "A Sick Man's Day" (second stanza), from The Marriage of Music (1910)
 * "We ask Thee not for quietness and rest, But for the ecstasy of endless quest; That Chief Adventure, questing for the truth, That radiant wholesomeness, immortal youth."
 * Dalton, "Flame and Adventure" (1924), stanza LXXIV
 * quoted in Robinson, Noel (1938-01-15). "Annie Charlotte Dalton: A Tribute". The Province. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-05-20 – via Newspapers.com.


 * "Foolish, foolish Edith Sitwell sang a solo of her auntie, her rich auntie and her trumpet, such a trumpet as old ladies give to stranger- folk to blow in."
 * Dalton, "The Ear Trumpet" (1926)
 * From a poem written in answer to Edith Sitwell's poem "Solo for Ear-Trumpet"

Quotes About Annie Charlotte Dalton

 * "During periods of creative work she lived in another world."
 * Robinson, Noel (1938-01-15). "Annie Charlotte Dalton: A Tribute". The Province. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-05-20 – via Newspapers.com.