45 Quotes by P.L. Travers

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!

Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.

I hate being good.-Mary Poppins

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins.

For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don’t look for an answer, because I don’t think there is one. I’m very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light – by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Tea is balm for the soul, don’t you agree?