39 Quotes by Stella Benson

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

The music paled like a candle and went out ...

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.