Aug
11
“When I ask myself what there may have been to show for my long tribulation, my wasted years and patiences and pangs, of theatrical experiment, the answer … comes up as just possibly this: what I have gathered from it will perhaps have been exactly some such mastery of fundamental statement–of the art and secret of it, of expression, of the sacred mystery of structure. Oh yes–the weary, woeful time has done something for me, has had in the depths of all its wasted piety and passion, an intense little lesson and direction. What that resultant is I must now actively show.”
Henry James, 11 August 1895
