"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."
― Goldwin Smith
Topic(s):
Poetry
― Goldwin Smith
More From Goldwin Smith
- "The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."
- "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
- "Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."
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- "Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It’s really good for your health."― Marisa Tomei
- "I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."― Isaac Rosenberg
- "Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures."― Tom Peters