Is this the same (American) Henry James that I think of as a novelist?

0xdeadbeefbabe · on March 30, 2015

This one wrote the middle years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James where you can find:

  We work in the dark
  We do what we can
  We give what we have
  Our doubt is our passion,
  and our passion is our task
  The rest is the madness of art.

peri · on March 30, 2015

Ah, we were thinking of the same one. It's worth noting that his brother, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James , wrote some of the most lyrical philosophy and psychology works of the late 19th century.