William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
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Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.
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So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.
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These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
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The victory of endurance born.
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Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
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Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
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Is not thy home among the flowers?
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I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .