--- title: "2 Ambitious Heart Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 2 Ambitious Heart quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Ambitious Heart sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/w-b-yeats-8179_friendship_i-turn-away-and-shut-the-door-and-on-the_651295.jpg" --- > [“I turn away and shut the door, and on the stair Wonder how many times I could have proved my worth In something that all others understand or share; But O! ambitious heart, had such a proof drawn forth A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/i-turn-away-and-shut-the-door-and-on-the-stair-wonder-how-many-times/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/w-b-yeats-8179_friendship_i-turn-away-and-shut-the-door-and-on-the_651295.jpg) > [“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a human life: what is it he there beholds that so freezes and abashes his ambitious heart? What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all-earnestly-at-all-in-purpose/) [james agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/james-agee-9167_dreams_for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all_944459.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ambitious-heart/#itemlist", "name": "Ambitious Heart Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I turn away and shut the door, and on the stair Wonder how many times I could have proved my worth In something that all others understand or share; But O! ambitious heart, had such a proof drawn forth A company of friends, a conscience set at ease, It had but made us pine the more. 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What is it, profound behind the outward windows of each one of you, beneath touch even of your own suspecting, drawn tightly back at bay against the backward wall and blackness of its prison cave, so that the eyes alone shine of their own angry glory, but the eyes of a trapped wild animal, or of a furious angel nailed to the ground by his wings, or however else one may faintly designate the human 'soul,' that which is angry, that which is wild, that which is untamable, that which is healthful and holy, that which is competent of all advantaging within hope of human dream, that which most marvelous and most precious to our knowledge and most extremely advanced upon futurity of all flowerings within the scope of creation is of all these the least destructible, the least corruptible, the most defenseless, the most easily and multitudinously wounded, frustrated, prisoned, and nailed into a cheating of itself: so situated in the universe that those three hours upon the cross are but a noble and too trivial an emblem how in each individual among most of the two billion now alive and in each successive instant of the existence of each existence not only human being but in him the tallest and most sanguine hope of godhead is in a billionate choiring and drone of pain of generations upon generations unceasingly crucified and is bringing forth crucifixions into their necessities and is each in the most casual of his life so measurelessly discredited, harmed, insulted, poisoned, cheated, as not all the wrath, compassion, intelligence, power of rectification in all the reach of the future shall in the least expiate or make one ounce more light: how, looking thus into your eyes and seeing thus, how each of you is a creature which has never in all time existed before and which shall never in all time exist again and which is not quite like any other and which has the grand stature and natural warmth of every other and whose existence is all measured upon a still mad and incurable time; how am I to speak of you as 'tenant' 'farmers,' as 'representatives' of your 'class,' as social integers in a criminal economy, or as individuals, fathers, wives, sons, daughters, and as my friends and as I 'know' you?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "james agee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all-earnestly-at-all-in-purpose/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/james-agee-9167_dreams_for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all_944459.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/james-agee-9167_dreams_for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all_944459.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/james-agee-9167_dreams_for-one-who-sets-himself-to-look-at-all_944459.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a…” — james agee", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ambitious-heart/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ambitious-heart/", "name": "Ambitious Heart Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ambitious-heart/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/w-b-yeats-8179_friendship_i-turn-away-and-shut-the-door-and-on-the_651295.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 2 Ambitious Heart quotes by 2 authors. 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