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
people marry-me teach
When I teach people, I marry them.
teaching important way
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?
mother teacher fall
Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.
teacher volcanoes years
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
jobs teaching cutting
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
mother teacher husband
not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money ...
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.
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.