Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes

• Durante gran parte de mi vida, estuve ansiosa por ser lo que otros querían que fuera. Ahora he renunciado a esa lucha. Soy lo que soy.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Struggle, Given, Anxious

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• Only of one thing I am sure:
  when I dream
  I am always ageless.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Dream, Ageless, One Thing

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• La puesta de sol me atrapó, convirtió el pincel en cobre,/ puso las nubes/ en un gran techo de llamas/ sobre la tierra.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Clouds, Flames

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1968). “Down Half the World”, New York : Macmillan

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• Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Age, Emotion, Periods

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• Little I ask
  And that little is not granted."
  There are few crumbs
  In this world any more.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  World, Charity, Littles

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• When I dream, I am ageless.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Dream, Aging, Ageless

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• I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Dog, Art, Sunset

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• there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Mirrors, Furniture, Dangerous

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• Hoy he caminado por las colinas color de león con la única compañía de los cipreses, hasta que la puesta de sol me ha atrapado, ha convertido la maleza en cobre y las nubes en un gran techo de llamas sobre la tierra, de modo que camino a través del fuego, bajo el fuego, y todo en belleza. Estando solo no podía estar solo, sino que sentía (más cerca que la carne) la presencia de aquellos que una vez habían ardido en tales transfiguraciones. Mi felicidad recorrió los siglos en un continuo resplandor. Mirando hacia abajo, vi la tierra bajo mí como una rosa en pétalos de montañas, fragante de profunda paz.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Night, Flames

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• Pero la calma, la blanca calma, nació en un cisne.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Swans, White, Calm

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• To a life that seizes
  Upon content,
  Locality seems
  But accident.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Locality, Accidents, Seems

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• No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Flower, Smell, Doors

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Rain, Sky, Lovely

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• At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Cat, Loud

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• Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Men, Land, Self

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Fall, Law, Weather

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