Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBEwas a New Zealand writer, poet and educator...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth17 December 1908
Sylvia Ashton-Warner quotes about
suffering steps goodbye-love
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
listening attention wells
To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.
creativity self transcendence
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...
forgiving criticism never-forgive
I never forgive attacks on my work.
people marry-me teach
When I teach people, I marry them.
powerful inspiration desire
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.
desire desire-to-live
What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.
self order camouflage
How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.
spring comforting contagious
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
wealth
What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?
children night yesterday
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
thinking done eating
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
children two vision
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
circumstances corners
It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.