Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.