JENNETTE LEE QUOTES

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Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret


All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

JENNETTE LEE

The Symphony Play

Tags: nature


Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret

Tags: life


Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret

Tags: love


He was accustomed to do what he called his duty; and it had for him the simplicity, common to big men, of being the thing next at hand. Like a force of nature he laid hold on it, and out of the ground and the sky and the thrill of life, he wrought beauty upon it.

JENNETTE LEE

Uncle William

Tags: duty


Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret

Tags: Henrik Ibsen


Realism and art cannot live together.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret

Tags: realism


It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

JENNETTE LEE

The Symphony Play

Tags: men


Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

JENNETTE LEE

The Mysterious Office