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...
grandmother people looks
I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!
stories public-speaking storytelling
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
morning heart air
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
wine later-in-life drunk
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
writing despair littles
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
tailors truth-is lord
Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.
joy vision aviation
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
country giving other-countries
I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them ...
brave fantastic dangerous
Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.
sea sweat water
Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
loneliness farewell men
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
people experience old-people
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
artist people poor
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.
coffee soul body
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.