Human nature Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

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

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

I always write a story in one sitting.

— Katherine Anne Porter

What we need is endless courage.

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

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

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

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

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

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

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