George Edward Woodberry Quotes
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith you must find things to believe in yourself for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
