Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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 clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.”
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“At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.”
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“I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.”
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“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?”
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“But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.”
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“The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.”
-- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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