Quotes from book

The Middle Years

“We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

Henry James book The Middle Years

Source: The Middle Years (1893).

“A second chance—that’s the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

Henry James book The Middle Years

Source: The Middle Years

“The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.”

Henry James book The Middle Years

The Middle Years (1917), ch. VI.