Quote by William Shenstone
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Sc

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

Other quotes by William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor mans hut, as well as the palace of his superior. – William Shenstone

Category:
Hope
Read Quote

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? – W.H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. – Paul Celan

Category:
Poetry

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. – Sophia Loren

Category:
Faith

Theres a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. – Arthur Scargill

Category:
strength

I have to say that in this particular cow that were dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we dont think theres any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident. – Ann Veneman

Category:
Health

If youve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. Youve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet. – Jack LaLanne

Category:
diet