6 quotes found
“I have loved enough women to know how to paint.If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet.”
“That is why they have poetsto classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.”
“That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.”
“Hands are difficult. You would think they would be just five quick lines, but no, they have personalities as intimate as faces. Elizabeth's hands, for instancethey are fine hands, with long fingers...”
“Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly And things that meet each other slowly are kind.”
“Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish itI think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song...”
