The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
Isak DinesenIt is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
Isak DinesenThere is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
Isak Dinesen