Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes

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

When I dream, I am ageless.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

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

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

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

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

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

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

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

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

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.