But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

When I dream, I am ageless.

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

- 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

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