Winifred Holtby Quote

I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action...


Letters to a friend (1941 edition)


I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain...

I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain...

I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain...

I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain...