“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.” ThinkingMindLittlesSoulBodySpiritImaginationSleepLittle ThingsClosed Mind Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935 Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.” IfsBodyActionGivenAnimalEatingRootsIf I CouldSignificanceRitualGrainFillingUtilitarian Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.” PeopleShouldMindBodySeemsIllIllnessSicknessLeapSaddlesChangelings Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
