Quote by Walter Pater
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is b

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

Other quotes by Walter Pater

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. – Walter Pater

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater

Category:
Success
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets… – Sir William Jones, “On the Philosophy of the Asiaticks” (eleventh anniversary di

Category:
Poetry

Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. – Terri Guillemets, “From the Library to the Park,” 1993

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Poetry

If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. – Douglas Horton

Category:
Beauty

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

Category:
Optimism

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. – Thomas Sowell

Category:
Time

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Men