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
our-love world whole-world
The whole world shall be ours because of our love.
understanding want superficial
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
work delight infinite
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
couple women months
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
feelings stories finished
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
tonight my-love-for-you greatest-love
My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
laughter spring clouds
The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.
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.
writing people effort
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.
friendship sacred truth-is
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
writing light tree
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.
becomes life
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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.
arms brief letter moment
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment