At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affairโฆ which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.
Natalie Clifford BarneyA scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
Natalie Clifford BarneyParis has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
Natalie Clifford Barney