George Edward Woodberry Quotes
Top 21 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
'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.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.