More From William Shenstone
- "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."
- "Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
- "Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
More In Poetry
- "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."― Jean Cocteau
- "People’s view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point."― Laura Linney
- "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."― T. S. Eliot