Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
Most popular Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
![The past is never where you think you left it. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/62/37062A-the-past-is-never-where-you-think-you-left-it-katherine-anne-porter.png)
The past is never where you think you left it.
![Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/74/33474A-imagination-continually-outruns-the-creature-it-inhabits-katherine-anne-porter.png)
Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
![Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all the fidelities are undermined. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/99/33599A-physical-infidelity-is-the-signal-the-notice-given-that-all-katherine-anne-porter.png)
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all the fidelities are undermined.
![You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/86/40286A-you-do-not-create-a-style-you-work-develop-yourself-katherine-anne-porter.png)
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
![Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/73/35273A-love-must-be-learned-and-learned-again-again-there-is-katherine-anne-porter.png)
Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
![The quarrel between them was a terrible treadmill they mounted together and tramped round and round until they were wearied out or in despair. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/12/38412A-the-quarrel-between-them-was-a-terrible-treadmill-they-mounted-katherine-anne-porter.png)
The quarrel between them was a terrible treadmill they mounted together and tramped round and round until they were wearied out or in despair.
![There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/84/37884A-there-are-so-many-things-we-are-capable-that-we-katherine-anne-porter.png)
There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
![They lie flat on their noses at first in what appears to be a drunken slumber, then flat on their backs kicking and screaming, demanding impossibilities in a foreign language. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/83/26883A-they-lie-flat-on-their-noses-at-first-what-appears-katherine-anne-porter.png)
They lie flat on their noses at first in what appears to be a drunken slumber, then flat on their backs kicking and screaming, demanding impossibilities in a foreign language.
![Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country; for the illusion of being more alive than ordinarily, the thing you will to occur. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/79/25379A-adventure-is-something-you-seek-for-pleasure-or-even-profit-katherine-anne-porter.png)
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country; for the illusion of being more alive than ordinarily, the thing you will to occur.
![Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.](/img/q/40/18640A-marriage-is-a-public-declaration-of-man-woman-that-they-katherine-anne-porter.png)
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.