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
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
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Art 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
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. — George Edward Woodberry Doe 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
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
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. — George Edward Woodberry Faith 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
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
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late… — George Edward Woodberry Boss 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
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. — George Edward Woodberry Contentment 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
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it. — George Edward Woodberry Education 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
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
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. — George Edward Woodberry Awful 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
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm… — George Edward Woodberry Action 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
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
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Abstract 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
