Quotes by Channing, William Ellery

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is t >>

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to t >>

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towar >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense >>

Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. >>

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people >>

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

Channing, William Ellery