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
live-life book writing
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That’s no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
reading book consciousness
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
book joy lasts
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
book reading literacy
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
fine further gets hand rare warming
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
accept life suffering
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
asking friend future hope present share treating
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
alone beneath lower mask prepared terrible until yes
It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.
arms brief letter moment
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment
begin failures immense importance means
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
becomes life
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
best delight infinite work
To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
appalling build good regret waste
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
ask asking friend future hope present share treating
I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses