Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
From Willa Cather
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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