Overgrown Orchard
Andrew Wyeth, 1959
Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The mind I
love must have wild places,
A tangled
orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass,
An overgrown
little wood,
The chance
of a snake or two,
A pool that
nobody’s fathomed the depth of,
And paths
threaded with flowers
Planted by
the mind."
Katherine
Mansfield
I bloody wish I'd written that.
Oh, that's quite perfect; I too wish I had written that.
ReplyDeleteCould you tell me what piece this quote is from? Thank you
ReplyDeleteOr this:
ReplyDelete“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
Crikey...me too, totally superb!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting it's one I'd missed.
How I wish I'd written it too.... just gorgeous. I immediately could see those 'Dark damsons.'
ReplyDeleteSmall world..I was in a book shop yesterday and picked up The Garden Party (and other short stories) written by Katherine Mansfield. A gem given that I was in a Vietnamese bookshop. Books in English are slim pickings around here. When I read her words above..it made me think of life in Vietnam and my recent encounter with snakes...funny how the world turns.
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