The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
Katherine MansfieldWarm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
Katherine MansfieldLooking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine Mansfieldthere does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.
Katherine MansfieldWhy! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?
Katherine MansfieldI am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
Katherine MansfieldI am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.
Katherine MansfieldIn fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
Katherine MansfieldTo work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
Katherine MansfieldWhen we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
Katherine MansfieldRegret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.
Katherine MansfieldAs in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.
Katherine Mansfield