7 Quotes by Elizabeth Coatsworth

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?

The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.

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

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan

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

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

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