Natalie Clifford Barney Love Quotes & Sayings

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair ... which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness. — Natalie Clifford Barney

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it. — Natalie Clifford Barney

When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze. — Natalie Clifford Barney

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. — Natalie Clifford Barney

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. — Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo. — Natalie Clifford Barney