George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D.was an American literary critic and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
CountryUnited States of America
broken-heart morning years
"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.
want factors
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.
hero college slavery
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.
ideas promise enough
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.
faithful excellence desire
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
ideas intellectual vitality
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
helping-others people care
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
running art advancement
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.
art powerful mean
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.
eulogy fame mortals
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
morning boss next
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.
fire creative emotion
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
artist way arriving
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.
symbolism hidden-meaning deals
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.