Author: George Edward Woodberry

Quotes

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 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.

- George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

- George Edward Woodberry

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

- George Edward Woodberry

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

- George Edward Woodberry

'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.

'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.

- George Edward Woodberry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

- George Edward Woodberry

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

- George Edward Woodberry

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