Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

#2. 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.

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

#5. No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

#10. When I dream, I am ageless.

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

#11. 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.

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

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

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth