Annie Charlotte Dalton

Annie Charlotte Dalton, from a 1926 publication

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.