Myself
A source page for quotes linked to Sylvia Ashton-Warner.
“To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.”
“Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.”
“It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.”
“Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.”
“I never forgive attacks on my work.”
“What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.”
“I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.”
“There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.”
“A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.”
“The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.”
“I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.”
“Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.”