Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Little I ask
And that little is not granted.
There are few crumbs
In this world any more.

To a life that seizes
Upon content,
Locality seems
But accident.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

There is something dangerous about mirrors ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.