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.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. - Natalie Clifford Barney
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? - Natalie Clifford Barney
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time. - Natalie Clifford Barney
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
Might I be the one I am looking for? - Natalie Clifford Barney
Might I be the one I am looking for?
It is time for dead languages to keep quiet. - Natalie Clifford Barney
It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
Our shadows are taller than ourselves. - Natalie Clifford Barney
Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. - Natalie Clifford Barney
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. - Natalie Clifford Barney
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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… - Natalie Clifford Barney
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…
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