スタイルは作り出すものではありません。働き、自らを成長させれば、あなたのスタイルは自身の存在から発せられるのです。
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
Katherine Anne Porter
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But I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
Katherine Anne Porter • Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews: Second Series
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Mankind has always built a little more than he has hitherto been able or willing to destroy; got more children than he has been able to kill; invented more laws and customs than he had any intention of observing; founded more religions than he was able to practice or even to believe in; made in general many more promises than he could keep; and has been known more than once to commit suicide through mere fear of death. Now in our time, in his pride to explore his universe to its unimaginable limits and to exceed his possible powers, he has at last produced an embarrassing series of engines too powerful for their containers and too tricky for their mechanicians; millions of labor-saving gadgets which can be rendered totally useless by the mere failure of the public power plants, and has reduced himself to such helplessness that a dozen or less of the enemy could disable a whole city by throwing a few switches. This paradoxical creature has committed all these extravagances and created all these dangers and sufferings in a quest - we are told - for peace and security.
-Katherine Anne Porter, The Future is Now
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Now crunches down the frozen stalk
On sterile snow:
Chill core of winter fruit in the mouth
Is bitter as a blow.
Pluck out this seed and bury it
Under a rock:
Against the winter measure of thin days
Tapped out upon a clock.
Winter Burial by Katherine Anne Porter
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Empecé sin nada... Katherine Anne Porter
Yo nunca he hecho una carrera de nada, sabe usted, ni siquiera de la literatura. Empecé sin nada, excepto una especie de pasión, un deseo impulsor. No sé de dónde venía y no sé por qué he sido tan obstinada en ese sentido que nada pudo desviarme. Pero esta cosa que existe entre mi persona y mi literatura es el lazo más fuerte que he conocido con cualquier otra persona u otro trabajo que haya…
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Katherine Anne Porter, c. 1950s
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As she began "Dear..." she thought again that it did not matter which of the lot she addressed the letter to, for they presented to her the impermeable front of what she called "the family attitude" – suspicion of the worst based on insufficient knowledge of her life, and moral disapproval based firmly on their general knowledge of the weakness of human nature. Jenny couldn't possibly be up to any good, or she would have stayed at home, where she belonged. That is the sum of it, thought Jenny, and wouldn't their blood run cold if they could only know the facts? Ah well, the family can get under your skin with little needles and scalpels if you venture too near them: they attach suckers to you and draw your blood from every pore if you don't watch out. But that didn't keep you from loving them, nor them from loving you, with that strange longing, demanding, hopeless tenderness and bitterness, wound into each other in a net of living nerves.
from Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter - Wino o południu
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But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it. He hasn’t got the right to sidestep it like that. Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist—the only thing he’s good for—is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it’s only his view of a meaning. That’s what he’s for—to give his view of life. Surely, we understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment. But by remembering, comparing, waiting to know the consequences, we can sometimes see what an event really meant, what it was trying to teach us.
Katherine Anne Porter • Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews: Second Series
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And yet it may be that what we have is a world not on the verge of flying apart, but an uncreated one - still in shapeless fragments waiting to be put together properly. I imagine that when we want something better, we may have it: at perhaps no greater price than we have already paid for the worse.
-Katherine Anne Porter, The Future is Now
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You need not be afraid, I shall not wound
Your pride with my edged scorn,
Nor flagellate with my despairs
The surface of your heart:
For this my hate
Is not a lash, nor thorn
But a measureless, distilled
Vial of torment endlessly refilled.
And it shall fix upon your senses so,
Shall of your slakeless fibres be such part
As your wild blood shall mix within your veins
My hard, enduring pains,
In corporate with your immediate being.
And if your pulse should
From this transfusion that was the life of me.
This Transfusion by Katherine Anne Porter
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So out of the main hsmtmts girls (Nini, Kourtney, Ashlynn, Gina, Maddox, Val) who would you guys cast them as in Six the Musical?
Personally I’m thinking…
Catherine of Aragon: Kourtney
Anne Boleyn: Gina
Jane Seymour: Ashlynn
Anna of Cleves: Maddox
Katherine Howard: Nini
Catherine Parr: Val
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