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. William Cullen Bryant More Quotes by William Cullen Bryant More Quotes From William Cullen Bryant The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. William Cullen Bryant nature eye blue spring heaven Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William Cullen Bryant her she run truth To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. William Cullen Bryant she language nature love The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea. William Cullen Bryant walk music dance business I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step. William Cullen Bryant step better government power
