black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

Carson McCullers

I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Fall First Love Meditate Men Realize Reason Start With Women Wrong
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERS

Desire Herat Hunter Loney Only
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Heart Hunter Lonely
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Been Before Each never Other Thing Walk
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Been Just Long Time Trouble
Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Experience Fact Involve Joint Love People Person Similiar
Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Compassion Generator Good Love Main Passion Thing Together Welded Writing
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Each Other Event Almost Happen Know never People See
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Begin Come Flash Heart Hunter Illumination Lonely Long Phenomenon Ready Religious Search Soul Such Truth
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Area Childhood Darkness Light Memories Shut Space Stranger
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Behind Dead Left Soul Truly
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Hew Must Phantom Rock Writer
I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Agree Also Call Colour Green Same See Tree
A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Blind Dump Everybody Fellow Frazzle Meanness Mouthful Passive Stupid Wear
Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bridge Lead Love Paradox Personal Sense
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Accomplish Art Author Bustling Dimension Illumination Progressive Realize Seldom Silence Until Work

Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Carson McCullers Quotes