Sylvia Townsend Warner - Day Quotes

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Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Death transfigured her. In a matter of minutes I saw the beauty of her young days reassert itself on her blurred careworn face. It was like something in music, the re-establishment of the original key, the return of the theme. Don't think I am unhappy and alone, dear William. I am not. I am in a new country and she is the compass I travel by.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

It [the bat] allowed me to pick it up and admire its fine mackintosh wings and furious fairy face. And since it was a day of ruthless sunlight I put it into a cupboard to meditate in dusk till sundown.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Yesterday... was a very queer and alarming day: classically still and brooding, and both our cats with staring coats, and slinking about at my heels in the most woe-begone way. They have a wonderful talent for being Cassandras, only unfortunately they cannot prophesy with any explicit detail, so we never know whether to expect floods, lightning, or visitors.

Sylvia Townsend Warner