“Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful...I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.”
Katherine Mansfield“I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!”
Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield“Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful...I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.”
Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)”
Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.”
Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Letters And Journals: A Selection“The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition“It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.”
Katherine Mansfield“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.”
Katherine Mansfield“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
Katherine Mansfield“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”
Katherine Mansfield“I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
Katherine Mansfield