Books Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

— Robert Aris Willmott

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

— Robert Aris Willmott

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its…

— Robert Aris Willmott