Stella Benson
Stella Benson
Stella Bensonwas an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
alive stranger cursed
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
dream air clouds
There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
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.
world connections music-is
Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.
change flower godly
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
misunderstood excellent delicious
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
curiosity needs dies
Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.
music candle
The music paled like a candle and went out ...
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.
ocean animal islands
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
call english-writer love man
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.