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."
- "Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
- "Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
More In Poetry
- "I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it’s not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own."― Louise Mensch
- "All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."― Gustave Flaubert
- "I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting."― Janine Turner