Bliss Katherine Mansfield Quotes

What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...

Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at - nothing - at nothing, simply. What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss! - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?

And the two women stood side by side looking at the slender, flowering tree. Although it was so still it seemed, like the flame of a candle, to stretch up, to point, to quiver in the bright air, to grow taller and taller as they gazed - almost to touch the rim of the round, silver moon. How long did they stand there? Both, as it were, caught in that circle of unearthly light, understanding each other perfectly, creatures of another world, and wondering what they were to do in this one with all this blissful treasure that burned in their bosoms and dropped, in silver flowers, from their hair and hands?

But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.

I am tired, blissfully tired. Do you suppose that daisies feel blissfully tired when they shut for the night and the dews descend upon them?

¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado”? La civilización es una estupidez. ¿Para qué se nos ha dado un cuerpo, si hemos de mantenerlo encerrado en un estuche como si fuera algún valioso Stradivarius?

How long did they stand there? Both, as it were, caught in that circle of unearthly light, understanding each other perfectly, creatures of another world, and wondering what they were to do in this one with all this blissful treasure that burned in their bosoms and dropped, in silver flowers, from their hair and hands?

I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know.' She wanted to cry: I am sure there is--often--often.

Pois a qualidade especial comovente daquela amizade era a total entrega. Como duas cidades abertas no meio de uma vasta planície, suas mentes abriam-se uma para a outra. E não era como se ele cavalgasse na dela, como um conquistador, armado até os dentes e nada mais vendo senão um alegre ondular de seda; nem ela entrava na mente dele como uma rainha, caminhando docemente sobre pétalas... Não, eles eram viajantes atentos, sérios, absorvidos em compreender o que estava para ser visto e descobrir o que estivesse escondido, tirando o melhor proveito dessa oportunidade extraordinária, absoluta, que possibilitou a ele ser absolutamente verdadeiro com ela e possibilitou a ela ser absolutamente sincera com ele.