I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant...


The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns (ed. 1988)

Mary Butts Quotes

I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone,...

I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone,...

I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone,...

I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone,...