More From William C. Bryant
- "Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
- "Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion."
- "A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."
More In Nature
- "The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."― Georg C. Lichtenberg
- "The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."― John Ruskin
- "Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."― David Gerrold