“There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.” ThinkingMindHumansMayCountryDreamHuman BeingsSensitiveNativeBarriersProtectedInaccessibleNative Country Book:Works Source: Works
“The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.” ShouldMindWellsDifferentSharePublishersSympatheticEphemeralOverlookedTrue Success Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.” MindBookLightWaitingSidesVisionSpringFlowPreservesEndeavorValleysSanctuaryReverieInaccessibleUntouchables Author:Ellen Glasgow
“There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.” MindPhilosophyMonstersDestructive Author:Ellen Glasgow
“America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.” MindAmericaUnited StatesBlessingTrackEnjoyedDoubtful Author:Ellen Glasgow
“... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.” MindMatterRealityAnd LoveIllumination Author:Ellen Glasgow
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayAbleAmericaRomanceGuyIndividualRaceTypeHeroTomorrowBlessingPureDemandToughTrackYesterdayEnjoyedThoughtfulPrimitiveUniformsInvincibleDoubtfulAccommodateTough GuyUnderprivileged Author:Ellen Glasgow
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.” WritingMindMayPersonsArtArtistInterestingFictionPrimitiveImpressiveDullness Author:Ellen Glasgow
“He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.” MenWorldMindWellsMatterEarthForceFeltHe ManGreat ThingsRevelationsFarmersSmall ThingsFarmingRebelliousUndoneFarming And Farmers Author:Ellen Glasgow
“Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.” MindDreamLife IsSpiritDesirePossibilityAdventureTreasureBuriedBuried Treasure Author:Ellen Glasgow
