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.
best-love mushrooms toadstools
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
encouraging want becoming
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
swimming islands beef
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
risk earth take-a-chance
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
failure mean success-and-failure
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
mushrooms dine-in one-day
But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin....
travel believe years
In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
saws driving eternity
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
tree lasts pleasure
we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
ostriches important wish
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
our-love world whole-world
The whole world shall be ours because of our love.
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.
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.