Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes


your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.


Citations

Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Friends and Fiddlers. Little, Brown, and Company, 1935, p. 8.

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Born: January 1, 1897
  • Died: November 1, 1973
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Catherine Drinker Bowen was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958.