Stella Benson

Stella Benson
Stella Bensonwas an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
purpose enthusiasm committees
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
drinking chocolate moments
The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.
thinking two people
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
world connections music-is
Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.
might ordinary wells
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
heart writing luxury
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
music candle
The music paled like a candle and went out ...
heart cities los-angeles
Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
law silence likes
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
ocean animal islands
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
blessed blessing apples
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
travel forget worst
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.
dream air california
always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.
thinking class two
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.