Ellen Glasgow - Mind Quotes

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Her ideas were so correct that it was sometimes difficult for her to make conversation. Talking must be easier and topics more plentiful, she imagined, when one is slightly unsound either in one's mind or in one's opinions.

Ellen Glasgow
It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted — and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Ellen Glasgow
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
America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

Ellen Glasgow
The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Ellen Glasgow
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success — the true success so different from the ephemeral — is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Ellen Glasgow
To the land, she had given her mind and heart with the abandonment that she had found disastrous in any human relation.

Ellen Glasgow
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Ellen Glasgow
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over.
2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries.
3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

Ellen Glasgow
I shouldn't mind it if I saw the admirable sweep on to success, or immortality, but always it seems to be the ordinary, the vulgar, and the average, or the lower average, that triumphs. Nothing would astonish me, after all these years, except to be understood.

Ellen Glasgow