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?
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.
- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.
When I dream, I am ageless. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
When I dream, I am ageless.
To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.
At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period. - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clou… - Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clou…
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