“This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing! — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“We are solitary creatures au fond. It hapens so rarely that one feels another understands. But when one does feel it, it's… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“The Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“He would sit very still on the doorstep And dream--O, that he had a friend! Somebody to come when he called them,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so?… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Last night, there was a moment before you got into bed. You stood, quite naked, bending forward a little - talking. It… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I should like to have friends, I confess. I do not suppose I ever shall. But there have been moments when I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“There! it had come ― the moment ― the geste! And although I was so ready, it caught me; it tumbled me… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, on the blind.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“I used to believe I was merely words and I do not know whether I shall start hoping for something more. You planted that… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
