"Out of Africa" Quotes
"Out of Africa" recounts Isak Dinesen's years managing a coffee plantation in Kenya, weaving vivid descriptions of the landscape, people, and her poignant reflections on colonial life.
nonfiction | 399 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Here I am, where I ought to be.
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.
I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
To be a traveler was to be always at the mercy of places, and of people. The passing moment was the only reality.
I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
The bushes and wild grasses were like hair on the body of the world.
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
The sight of the hills and the land is a vision of the earth as it must have been when it was made.
