It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
Isak DinesenAnd were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
Isak DinesenThrough all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
Isak DinesenIn Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.
Isak Dinesen