Quote

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

Ellen Glasgow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Desire
Revelation
Firsts
Imitation
First
Revelations
Feel
Affected
Tolstoy
Feels
Conviction
Trumpet
Made
Judgment
Futile
Reading
Trumpets
Heaven
Imitate

More quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Image
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow
Image
though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
Ellen Glasgow
Image
To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
Ellen Glasgow