There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“[From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall ] You waste life when you waste good food.” — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
