As a young woman Janet Frame walked out of the classroom, ending her teaching career:
"It was the most wonderful moment of my life. I’ve only had one other moment to equal it. That was when I arrived in Paris on my first voyage to Europe. I had boxes and boxes, all the stuff people at home had told me I should need. I saw a sign in the station saying Consigne. I put them all under it and went to Ibiza with nothing. I watched the people struggling with their luggage and felt marvellous. I missed it later. I thought the word meant what it said and that I had consigned my luggage to Spain. Life is full of surprises. Auden said poetry couldn’t make things happen. I don’t agree."
~ Janet Frame, Interview with Harpers & Queen, London March 1985 (In Janet Frame In Her Own Words, Penguin NZ 2011)
"It was the most wonderful moment of my life. I’ve only had one other moment to equal it. That was when I arrived in Paris on my first voyage to Europe. I had boxes and boxes, all the stuff people at home had told me I should need. I saw a sign in the station saying Consigne. I put them all under it and went to Ibiza with nothing. I watched the people struggling with their luggage and felt marvellous. I missed it later. I thought the word meant what it said and that I had consigned my luggage to Spain. Life is full of surprises. Auden said poetry couldn’t make things happen. I don’t agree."
~ Janet Frame, Interview with Harpers & Queen, London March 1985 (In Janet Frame In Her Own Words, Penguin NZ 2011)
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