I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
Katherine Mansfield... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine MansfieldIsn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.
'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.
Il piacere di leggere è doppio quando si vive con qualcuno che divide con te gli stessi libri.
Katherine MansfieldThe Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped out at you from under the tables, through the stair rails, behind the doors, behind the coats in the passage. Impossible to count them: impossible to distinguish between them.
Katherine MansfieldShadow children, thin and small,
Now the day is left behind,
You are dancing on the wall,
On the curtains, on the blind.
He would sit very still on the doorstep
And dream--O, that he had a friend!
Somebody to come when he called them,
Somebody to catch by the hand,
Somebody to sleep with at night time,
Somebody who'd quite understand.
Light as feathers the witches fly,
The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee.
Outside the sky is light with stars
Katherine MansfieldWe might be fifty, we might be five,
So snug, so compact, so wise are we!
Under the kitchen-table leg
My knee is pressing against his knee.
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