91 Quotes by Rumer Godden

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink....

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

It’s only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.