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
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.
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.
friendship positive forgiveness
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
littles rags fence
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
best-love mushrooms toadstools
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
sister heart remember-you
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
friendship hope asking
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
encouraging want becoming
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
writing imagine looking-back
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
feelings pieces afternoon
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...
swimming islands beef
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
writing people trying
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
risk earth take-a-chance
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
failure laughing importance
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.