Mary Butts Quotes

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

Art is the god you have not seen.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

Sink twice before you strike out for land.

Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.