10 quotes
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
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.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
The Song of the Lark (1915)
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?
The Song of the Lark (1915)