--- title: "25 Mary Butts Quotes - Famous Novelist (Heart Throbs: In Prose and Verse)" description: "Mary Frances Butts, also Mary Rodker by marriage, was an English modernist writer. Her work found recognition in literary magazines such as The Bookman ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mary-butts-64955.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mary-butts-64955.jpg) # Mary Butts (1890–1937) Novelist United Kingdom **25** quotes in **145** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Mary Butts was a novelist from the United Kingdom, best known for *Heart Throbs: In Prose and Verse*. ## Quick Facts About Mary Butts Born December 13, 1890 Died March 5, 1937 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Novelist Notable works Heart Throbs: In Prose and Verse Known for The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns, Ashe of Rings, Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra, The Death of Felicity Taverner, Armed with Madness Spouse John Rodker ## About Mary Butts Mary Frances Butts, also Mary Rodker by marriage, was an English modernist writer. Her work found recognition in literary magazines such as The Bookman and The Little Review, as well as from fellow modernists, T. S. Eliot, H.D. and Bryher. After her death, her works fell into obscurity until they began to be republished in the 1980s. ## Quotes by Mary Butts > [Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/armed-with-madness-i-go-on-a-long-voyage/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Goes on](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/goes-on/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/mary-butts-23972_goes-on_armed-with-madness-i-go-on-a-long-voyage_1935884.jpg) > [One should be allowed to choose one's burden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/one-should-be-allowed-to-choose-one-s-burden/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Allowed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/allowed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/mary-butts-23972_allowed_one-should-be-allowed-to-choose-one-s-bu_37337.jpg) > [I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/i-blessed-the-power-which-has-filled-my-life-with-poetry/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blessed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5d/mary-butts-23972_blessed_i-blessed-the-power-which-has-filled-my_3176753.jpg) > [Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/frog-or-pearl-life-hid-something-at-the-bottom-of-the-cup/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Bottom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bottom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/mary-butts-23972_bottom_frog-or-pearl-life-hid-something-at-the_1850744.jpg) > [Sink twice before you strike out for land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/sink-twice-before-you-strike-out-for-land/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Land](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/land/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/mary-butts-23972_land_sink-twice-before-you-strike-out-for-lan_1877186.jpg) > [Art is the god you have not seen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/art-is-the-god-you-have-not-seen/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/mary-butts-23972_art_art-is-the-god-you-have-not-seen-2345978_2345978.jpg) > [Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/build-a-little-fence-of-trust-around-today-fill-the-space-with-loving/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Deeds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deeds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/mary-butts-23972_deeds_build-a-little-fence-of-trust-around-tod_3107970.jpg) > [The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/the-truth-which-may-not-be-told-is-the-truth-which-cannot-be-told/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/mary-butts-23972_may_the-truth-which-may-not-be-told-is-the-t_2202968.jpg) > [Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/nature-has-a-counterpart-a-representation-of-every-interior-mood-and/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Counterparts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/counterparts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d57/mary-butts-23972_counterparts_nature-has-a-counterpart-a-representatio_2933682.jpg) > [It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/it-is-in-the-nature-of-any-effort-to-leave-something-serviceable/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Behinds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behinds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d7/mary-butts-23972_behinds_it-is-in-the-nature-of-any-effort-to-lea_788528.jpg) > [“the things you hate are only your body being knocked about by phenomena”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/the-things-you-hate-are-only-your-body-being-knocked-about-by/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Hate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be5/mary-butts-23972_quote_the-things-you-hate-are-only-your-body-b_883996.jpg) > [“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/like-men-of-his-kind-at-cross-purposes-with-their-purpose-there-could/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [1932](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1932-385/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/mary-butts-23972_1932_like-men-of-his-kind-at-cross-purposes-w_1151198.jpg) > [Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/not-till-the-end-of-the-war-will-there-be-any-time-for-art-or-love-or/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/mary-butts-23972_art_not-till-the-end-of-the-war-will-there-b_644674.jpg) > [“She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/she-saw-the-skin-pull-under-the-driver-s-ears-and-knew-that-he-was/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Detail](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detail/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a9/mary-butts-23972_detail_she-saw-the-skin-pull-under-the-driver-s_1191822.jpg) > [There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/there-are-two-kinds-of-reading-reading-which-is-contemplation-even-a/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/mary-butts-23972_book_there-are-two-kinds-of-reading-reading-w_94470.jpg) > [I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/i-am-old-enough-to-remember-what-it-was-like-when-the-theories-of/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Alarms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alarms/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fc/mary-butts-23972_alarms_i-am-old-enough-to-remember-what-it-was_1591559.jpg) > [I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/i-thought-of-my-father-s-wisdom-as-though-it-were-buried-in-a-box/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Adulthood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adulthood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44a/mary-butts-23972_adulthood_i-thought-of-my-father-s-wisdom-as-thoug_1057975.jpg) > [For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/for-watching-death-and-above-all-after-death-not-death-in-battle-but/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [After death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/after-death/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87d/mary-butts-23972_after-death_for-watching-death-and-above-all-after-d_2836745.jpg) > [I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/i-cannot-remember-a-time-when-i-was-not-enraptured-or-tortured-by/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/mary-butts-23972_action_i-cannot-remember-a-time-when-i-was-not_2822223.jpg) > [“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/he-turned-to-her-his-gesture-a-superb-compound-of-relief-remorse/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Excuses](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excuses/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/mary-butts-23972_excuses_he-turned-to-her-his-gesture-a-superb-co_2277187.jpg) > [If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/if-it-is-true-that-it-is-the-simplicity-of-the-einsteinian-formulae/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Details](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/details/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/mary-butts-23972_details_if-it-is-true-that-it-is-the-simplicity_500309.jpg) > [“He turned his steel eyes at me. They hurt me, paralysed me, like the advancing lights of a car. I saw that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/he-turned-his-steel-eyes-at-me-they-hurt-me-paralysed-me-like-the/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [1932](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1932-385/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e8/mary-butts-23972_1932_he-turned-his-steel-eyes-at-me-they-hurt_3004931.jpg) > [“All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/all-night-the-earth-and-the-heavens-followed-their-usual-arrangements/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7e/mary-butts-23972_astronomy_all-night-the-earth-and-the-heavens-foll_2368149.jpg) > [“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/for-some-days-before-as-well-as-for-some-nights-vincent-had-observed/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [1932](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1932-385/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/mary-butts-23972_1932_for-some-days-before-as-well-as-for-some_411349.jpg) > [“Every day he woke to the desire to take the world by the throat, and choke it. He had no illusion that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/every-day-he-woke-to-the-desire-to-take-the-world-by-the-throat-and/) [Mary Butts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/) [1932](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1932-385/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b80/mary-butts-23972_1932_every-day-he-woke-to-the-desire-to-take_2302423.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-butts/#itemlist", "name": "Mary Butts Quotes", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary Butts" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-butts/armed-with-madness-i-go-on-a-long-voyage/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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