I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are… — 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
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
