“I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.” WantFirstsHeartBookSoulBigsCarePassionBrainWrittenDon't CareWarmI Don't CareFringeCrowdedGarmentsHeart And SoulFelicityBurstingHeart And Brain Author:Gertrude Atherton
“genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.” LongEnoughCharacterLife IsGrowsSidesBrainGeniusProportionImperfectSuperhumanPerfect Life Book:the conqueror Source: the conqueror
“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.” KnowsMenWorldMayHas BeensMotherBornBrainFireBloodConditionsStudentsGeniusHarmonySatisfiedPleasantGreat MenRemarkableMakersVirtuousElectricCommonplaceWildnessDomesticityNatal Author:Gertrude Atherton
“A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.” PeopleIfsLongBrainMoralTroubleGroupsAskingIf I CouldReformers Author:Gertrude Atherton
“Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so” PeopleIfsWorldWayImaginationSecretMistakeBrainMysterySucceedOrdinaryCriticismWingsMereCriticsDareShakesMaking MistakesPaleBrushesOrdinary PeopleAudacity Book:The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories Source: The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories