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Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born British writer renowned for her short stories. Her work is celebrated for its concise, direct style and profound insight into the details of everyday life. Although her writing career was brief, her influence on literature has been profound.

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Famous Katherine Mansfield Quotes

“What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.”

Littles Light Earth Together Night Fall Sound Rain Window Shining Rounds Ease Relief Joyful Tenderness Rainy Brooding Looking Down Rain At Night

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”

Years Light Age Poor Principles Appetite Obscure Purses Eighteen

Book:Katherine Mansfield: selected letters

Source: Katherine Mansfield: selected letters

“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.”

Writing Hard Light Moon Late Worthy Evening Rising Realising Pale

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”

Writing Bigs Light Would Be Heaven Rooms Tree Late Green Series Evening

Book:The Katherine Mansfield notebooks

Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks

“I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light.”

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921

“Outside the sky is light with stars”

Light Stars Sky

Book:KATHERINE MANSFIELD – The Ultimate Short Stories & Poetry Collection: 100+ Titles in One Volume (Literature Classics Series): Prelude, Bliss, At the Bay, The Garden Party, A Birthday, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses and many more

Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD – The Ultimate Short Stories & Poetry Collection: 100+ Titles in One Volume (Literature Classics Series): Prelude, Bliss, At the Bay, The Garden Party, A Birthday, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses and many more