Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel...
past imagination remember
We invent the past and remember the future.
speak admirer difficult
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
failure ideas bears
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
men ugly-things mind
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
loyalty stories loyal
Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.
dream taken heart
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.
here-i-am supposed-to-be
Here I am, where I am supposed to be.
doe planes parcel
One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.
dream shoes world
through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth
character writing feelings
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
blessed home longing
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
heart artist giving
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
mark
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
writing sorrow telling-stories
All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.