Margaret Prescott Montague Professions : Short story writer Born : November 29, 1878 Died : 1955 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Margaret Prescott Montague Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye. Margaret Prescott Montague illness enabling eye Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable. Margaret Prescott Montague heart beautiful life The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there. Margaret Prescott Montague loyalty real life Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive. Margaret Prescott Montague falling-in-love eye beauty Similar Authors Arthur Shearly Cripps short-story-writer Ivan Vladislavic short-story-writer Deborah Eisenberg short-story-writer Doris Betts short-story-writer Diriye Osman short-story-writer Deb Olin Unferth short-story-writer All Authors
