Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
-Katherine Anne Porter in Life quotes.

"I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have religious training. And I suppose you don't say, "I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal, but of course it does."
-Katherine Anne Porter

"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it."
-Katherine Anne Porter

"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
-Katherine Anne Porter in Infidelity quotes.

"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
-Katherine Anne Porter

"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, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own."
-Katherine Anne Porter

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
-Katherine Anne Porter

"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."
-Katherine Anne Porter

"You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence."
-Katherine Anne Porter