Katherine Anne Porter Quotes about Feelings

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The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

Katherine Anne Porter

Art, People, Feelings

Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.6, Atlantic Monthly Press

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

Katherine Anne Porter

Feelings, Individuality, Trying

Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Katherine Anne Porter

Stars, Order, Feelings

Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi