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  • Sink twice before you strike out for land.

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

    Pearls   Frogs   Cups  
    Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
  • One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

    Trouble   Burden   Should  
    Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
  • I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

    Blessed   Poetry   Filled  
  • Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

    Nature   Men   Perception  
  • It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

    Effort   Behinds  
  • If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.

  • 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.

  • Art is the god you have not seen.

    Art   Art Is  
    Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.1, Yale University Press
  • Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

    Art   War   Magic  
    Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.58, Yale University Press
  • I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.

    War   Games   Firsts  
  • I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.

    Mary Butts (1988). “The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns”, Beacon Press (MA)
  • Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

    Trust   Space   Deeds  
  • I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.

    Song   Father   Tree  
  • There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

    Book   Reading   Two  
    Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press
  • Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

    Long   Goes On   Voyages  
    Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson
  • The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.

    Truth   May  
    Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
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