"The eye is pleased when nature stoops to…" — Richard Wilbur
"The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art."
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17 Quotes by Richard Wilbur
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
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All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
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I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem.…
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That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves…
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of…
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What's lightly hid is deepest understood,
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There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer…
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Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.
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Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be…
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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
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Odd that a thing is most itself when likened
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More Art Quotes
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one of 14,657 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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