Quotes by Martha Ostenso

Martha Ostenso

A false vision was better than none.

Vision

a man can break God’s laws and be forgiven. That’s what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature’s laws, there’s no forgiveness – and there’s no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it – or his children’s children. It doesn’t matter much. It must be paid.

Children

Men

Nature

A sickness … defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

Illness

Shapes

Sickness

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

Life

Pulse

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life – find the knot – untangle it.

Knots

Thread

Threads Of Life

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

Lakes

Morning

Rain

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

Eye

Feet

Stars

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Death

Drawing

Independence

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Autumn

Branches

Here And There

I don’t see as it matters much how well you mean if it’s harm you’re doin’.

Harm

Matter

Mean

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Autumn

Branches

Children

Death

Design

Drawing

Dream

Earth

Eye

Farming

Feet

Grows

Hands

Harm

Heart

Here And There

Humorous

Idols

Illness

Independence

Knots

Lakes

Life

Littles

Matter

May

Mean

Memorable

Men

Morning

Mother

My Friends

Nature

Passion

Past

People

Pulse

Rain

Real

Religion

Shapes

Sickness

Soil

Space

Stars

Teeth

Thorns

Thread

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Quotes by Martha Ostenso

Martha Ostenso

A false vision was better than none.

A sickness … defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life – find the knot – untangle it.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

I don’t see as it matters much how well you mean if it’s harm you’re doin’.

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