In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument. The first is to be kind.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. This is the very education of our imaginative life. She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park. ", “I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”, “She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”, “Life is, in fact, a battle. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. The rest is the madness of art. She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. (Book House)”, p.750, Book House, Henry James (2015). The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Mrs Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her behaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a noticeable specimen. Most things are good for you; the … Every day we present the best quotes! Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. The second is to be kind. Henry James. Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words). Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination. “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. This is the very education of our imaginative life. She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park. ", “I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”, “She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”, “Life is, in fact, a battle. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. The rest is the madness of art. She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. (Book House)”, p.750, Book House, Henry James (2015). The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Mrs Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her behaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a noticeable specimen. Most things are good for you; the … Every day we present the best quotes! Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. The second is to be kind. Henry James. Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words). Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination. “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.