"All the wild sweetness of the flower Tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour.... The branches grew so tall They twined themselves into a bower. The sun shown ... and the fall Of yellow blossom on the grass! You feel that golden rain? Both of you could not hold, alas, (both of you tried, in vain) A memory, stranger. So I pass.... It will not come again."

-- Katherine Mansfield

#Memories Quotes #Wall Quotes #Spring Quotes

“The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.”
“The more you judge, the less you love.”
“Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...”
“I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.”
“When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.”
“An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.”
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”
“It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.”

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