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...
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
thinking littles idiot
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
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.
travel adventure alive
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
artist poor great-artist
A great artist is never poor.
lonely real house
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
going-away looks strange
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
country writing self
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.
men giving good-food
There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
animal people silence
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.