The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. — George Edward Woodberry Compulsory Copy Share Image
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. — George Edward Woodberry Contentment Copy Share Image
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it. — George Edward Woodberry Education Copy Share Image
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. — George Edward Woodberry Faith Copy Share Image
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas. — George Edward Woodberry Enough Copy Share Image
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry Deals Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Agitation Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry Eulogy Copy Share Image
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions… — George Edward Woodberry Aliens Copy Share Image
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. — George Edward Woodberry Anew Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. — George Edward Woodberry Communication Copy Share Image
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. — George Edward Woodberry Attempted Copy Share Image
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage… — George Edward Woodberry Ancient Copy Share Image
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a… — George Edward Woodberry Advancement Copy Share Image
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the… — George Edward Woodberry Always Copy Share Image
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Divine Copy Share Image
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his… — George Edward Woodberry Civilization Copy Share Image
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and… — George Edward Woodberry Appear Copy Share Image
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all… — George Edward Woodberry Astronomy Copy Share Image
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. — George Edward Woodberry Believe Copy Share Image
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to… — George Edward Woodberry Book Copy Share Image
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and… — George Edward Woodberry Being faithful Copy Share Image
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry Age Copy Share Image
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in… — George Edward Woodberry Every day Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Baptized Copy Share Image
Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they… — George Edward Woodberry Language Copy Share Image
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it,… — George Edward Woodberry Arriving Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Expression Copy Share Image
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the… — George Edward Woodberry About Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Desire Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the… — George Edward Woodberry Children Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Actors Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Books Copy Share Image
