It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
Edith WhartonโYes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,โ he said. โWell, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary โ she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.โ
Edith WhartonMy last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.
Edith WhartonAn unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
Edith Wharton