Quote by Walter Pater
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, whi

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

Other quotes by Walter Pater

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

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

Category:
Experience
Read Quote

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

Category:
Books
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. – Thom Gunn

Category:
Poetry

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky

Category:
Poetry

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. – Sylvia Plath

Category:
Poetry

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. – Arnold Glasgow

Category:
respect

Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. Its so close, which is perfect because its the minimal travel time. – Hilary Rhoda

Category:
Travel

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. – Friedrich August von Hayek

Category:
Equality

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. – Jessica Savitch

Category:
War