Poetry Quote by Katherine Mansfield — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.”

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.”

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,”

“Rocket ships”

“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,”

“I don’t need your praise”

“Poetry is just evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”