8 Quotes by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

When I dream, I am ageless.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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