Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murrywas a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 October 1888
soul curious wanted
You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.
stars writing dark
I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.
strong wish remember
The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
hate i-hate
I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.
life thinking desire
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
spiritual hurt pain
As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.
mushrooms dine-in one-day
But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin....
winter fire snow
In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
fun please-me perfect
I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.
running courage dog
Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
mother mean silence
Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.
easy near-death fearful
That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.
saws driving eternity
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
couple women months
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.