I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. George Edward Woodberry More Quotes by George Edward Woodberry More Quotes From George Edward Woodberry To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life. George Edward Woodberry faithfulexcellencedesire The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love. George Edward Woodberry carehelping-otherspeople The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. George Edward Woodberry educationmenschool Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. George Edward Woodberry vitalityintellectualideas Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul. George Edward Woodberry artistsoulbeautiful Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things. George Edward Woodberry We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power. George Edward Woodberry advancementrunningart To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind. George Edward Woodberry beautifulcivilizationart Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable. George Edward Woodberry skeletonsexpressionart A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre. George Edward Woodberry independentgeniusexpression Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language. George Edward Woodberry raceselfdoe Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. George Edward Woodberry bossnextmorning 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 emotioncreativefire Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. George Edward Woodberry eulogyhas-beensfame It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher. George Edward Woodberry arrivingartistway I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. George Edward Woodberry hidden-meaningdealssymbolism Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. George Edward Woodberry free-speechspeechform Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius. George Edward Woodberry romancehandsart Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible. George Edward Woodberry powerfulmeanart The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. George Edward Woodberry identitymindmen
