Quotes: Isak Dinesen

"There's no mystery in art. Do the things you can see, they will show you what you cannot see."

–– Isak Dinesen, pen name of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), Danish writer 

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2025, p. 46.

Quotes 117: Isak Dinesen

"Women when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, may be the most powerful creatures in the world." 

–– Isak Dinesen, pen name of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), Danish writer

via Book of Commonplace 2005-2006, p. 106

Quotes: Karen Blixen

– "I don't think you can see at home how much you need to get away from all the things you've wrapped up in difficulties. You think you know what a journey can offer, but that is precisely what you don't know, and I often think, then, that something new, almost anything at all, is inestimable." 

–– Isak Dinesen, pen name of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), Danish writer

Karen Blixen to Ingeborg Dinesen, dated January 18, 1917. Danish author Karen Blixen, a.k.a. Isak Dinesen, wrote Out of Africa and Babette's Feast.