P. L. Travers
P. L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBEwas an Australian-born British novelist, actress, and journalist who emigrated to England and lived most of her adult life there. She is known best for the Mary Poppins series of children's books featuring the magical English nanny Mary Poppins...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 August 1899
CountryAustralia
treasure convinced
More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
grateful thinking answers
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
kings cat moon
Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon." Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?" The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.
soul tea agree
Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
hate i-hate mary
I hate being good. -Mary Poppins
stars gold want
What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
running grandmother blood
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
creativity light creative
With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
children book men
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.
life hero feet
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
stars children stones
Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.
children real world
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
art book writing
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
knows
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?