924 quotes found
“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”
“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”
“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making t...”
“Language is fossil Poetry.”
“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature w...”
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had ...”
“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”
“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the signif...”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
“Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.”
“There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degre...”
“Do the thing and you will have the power.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
