Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.
Elizabeth Bowen[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
Elizabeth BowenAfter inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
Elizabeth Bowen