It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
She is written in a foreign tongue.
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.