How many times have I rested tired eyes on her graceful little body, curled up in a ball and wrapped round with her tail like a parcel... If they are content, their contentment is absolute; and our jaded wearied spirits find a natural relief in the sight of creatures whose little cups of happiness can be so easily filled to the brim.
-Agnes Repplier

Purring in his sleep, Fletch stretches out his little black paws to touch my hands, the claws withdrawn, just a gentle touch to assure him that I am there beside him as he sleeps.
-William S. Burroughs

If men and women would become more feline, indeed, I think it would prove the salvation of the human race.
-Carl Van Vechten

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

-Charles Baudelaire

He shut his eyes while Saha [the cat] kept vigil, watching all the invisible signs that hover over sleeping human beings when the light is put out.
-Colette

It's an honor to paint cats.
-Oliver Johnson

Painting cats is a question of genius.
-Theophile Gautier

In these great days of tension, human beings can learn a great deal about relaxation from watching a cat, who doesn't just lie down when it is time to rest, but pours his body on the floor and rests in every nerve and muscle.

-Murray Robinson

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
-Andre Norton

My theory is that the writer senses a deep and profound kinship with the cat.
-Joyce Carol Oates

So I passed him some very good advice, that if you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work, I explained, the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp. The light from a lamp, I explained, gives a cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.
-Muriel Spark

Cats speak to poets in their natural tongue, and something profound and untamed in us answers.

-Jean Burden

 

 

 

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