Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barneywas an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 October 1876
CountryUnited States of America
sensuality
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
tea drink perfume
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ...
inspiration writing night
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.
vices harm deliberate
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
love valentines-day confused
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
love days-off lovers
Lovers should also have their days off.
believe wish enough
I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.
business entrepreneur lasts
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
inspirational wise men
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
quiet language
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
prejudice defense natural
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.