Frases de Katherine Mansfield

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“Por saúde, quero dizer a possibilidade de levar uma vida completa, adulta, viva, em que eu esteja em estado de respirar em comunhão com aquilo de que gosto.”

“Quando começamos a deixar de levar a sério nossos fracassos, isso significa que não mais os receamos. O passo é de imensa importância para aprendermos a rir de nós mesmos.”

“Nada que valha alguma coisa pode vir de um ser desunido.”

“A arte não é uma tentativa de reconciliar a existência com a sua própria visão; não passa de uma tentativa de criar o seu próprio universo neste mundo.”

“Realmente, não creio na alma humana, nem nunca cri. Tenho a convicção de que as pessoas são como as malas: cheias de coisas diversas, são expedidas, atiradas, empurradas, lançadas ao chão, perdidas e reencontradas, até que, por fim um Último Transportador as atira para o Último Comboio.”

“Se nos é impossível permanecermos puros, não tentemos ser artistas.”

“Lamentar-se é um enorme desperdício de energia. Só serve para chafurdar, não para construir.”

“Quero tornar-me aquilo que sou: uma criança feita de luz.”

“Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

“To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.”

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”

“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”

“Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.”

“Once we have learned to read, the meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.”

“Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.”

“To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”

“I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That's no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.”

“I'm a writer first & a woman after.”

“When I say "I fear" — don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.”

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.”