Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. Henry James read-between-the-linesreadingbook Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible! Henry James poetryracesimple Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression. Henry James kindexpressionmay All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground. Henry James romebranchesmight I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. Henry James freedomdonesaid Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. Henry James selfideasart Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes. Henry James sparesturnslight Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. Henry James boxesenglandconversation It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. Henry James acceptanceselfthinking Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better. Henry James very-goodstoriesideas If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense? Henry James artistessenceambition I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. Henry James regretbirthdaythinking [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you. Henry James biographiesnoisescience I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live. Henry James diesamerica Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. Henry James atticscrackedwindow I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night. Henry James eyemorningnight Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey. Henry James journeyprayerideas Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so. Henry James circlesproblemartist We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. Henry James familiarstrangepast I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. Henry James creating-artartisticforce
