Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
Isak DinesenI think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak DinesenWhat is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Isak DinesenA poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
Isak Dinesen