I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes From Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter asceticismsufferinggiving I can pray better when I'm comfortable. Katherine Anne Porter comfortablei-canpraying we know that the Furies do not come uninvited. Katherine Anne Porter furytroubleknows words can never get at the truth. Katherine Anne Porter truth Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this. Katherine Anne Porter creativeartistadvice Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it. Katherine Anne Porter militaryshould-havelaw Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind. Katherine Anne Porter mindmenart I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living. Katherine Anne Porter painartthinking Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. Katherine Anne Porter Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. Katherine Anne Porter realizeyouwritingpeople Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. Katherine Anne Porter neverthingsgreatlife Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it. Katherine Anne Porter againmustendlove
