Kate Chopin Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  Kate Chopin

  Memorable, Water, People

  Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Literary Touchstone”, p.142, Prestwick House Inc

• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  Kate Chopin

  Smile, Clever, Eye

  Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad (2004). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

• It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

  Kate Chopin

  Stars, Moving, Energy

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  Kate Chopin

  People, Mad, Personality

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  Kate Chopin

  Literature, Matter, Lace

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  Kate Chopin

  Editors, Giving, Secret

  1899 'On Certain Brisk Days', in the St Louis Post -Dispatch, 26 Nov.

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  Kate Chopin

  Love, Shining, Missing

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.69

• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Artist, Effort, Soul

  Kate Chopin (2014). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

  Kate Chopin

  Fire, Light, Glowing

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.201, Booklassic

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  Kate Chopin

  Passion, Flames, White

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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