Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.
Rebecca WestThere is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca WestAll our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca WestLiterature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
Rebecca WestMozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.
Rebecca West