What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
Katherine MansfieldWind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
Katherine MansfieldThere is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
Katherine MansfieldLetters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.
Katherine Mansfield