The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when… — 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
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — 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
“[From Old Mortality ] The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if… — 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 don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“At that time I was too young for some of the troubles I was having, and I had not yet learned what… — 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
