The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members. Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes From Katherine Anne Porter A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. Katherine Anne Porter instruments symphony novel Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. Katherine Anne Porter miracle angel character Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness? Katherine Anne Porter development self want I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it. Katherine Anne Porter young advice needs We are born knowing death. Katherine Anne Porter born knowing The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything. Katherine Anne Porter race two thinking You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. Katherine Anne Porter writing children years But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. Katherine Anne Porter fate men death Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were. Katherine Anne Porter limits lows fall Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty? Katherine Anne Porter modesty skins beautiful Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on. Katherine Anne Porter claws aunt posts Be respectful of words. They mean something. Katherine Anne Porter be-respectful respectful mean Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else. Katherine Anne Porter artist praying thinking Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write. Katherine Anne Porter falling-in-love love-you writing Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. Katherine Anne Porter crafts writing people One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with. Katherine Anne Porter views sex people Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work. Katherine Anne Porter energy trying two Evil is dull, that is the worst of it. Katherine Anne Porter worst evil dull Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. Katherine Anne Porter important imagination love-is Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. Katherine Anne Porter taken mind heart
