sweetly-stale

Updated: May 28, 2025

Since that night I have had a week's daylight knowledge of the surface of the subject at least, and don't know how I can better present it than simply as another and a vivider page of the lesson that the ever-hungry artist has only to <i>trust</i> old Italy for her to feed him at every single step from her hand and if not with one sort of sweetly-stale grain from that wondrous mill of history which during so many ages ground finer than any other on earth, why then always with something else.

Henry James - Italian Hours