I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming… This all sounds… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love -… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a… — 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
