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The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Best Between Divine Fixed God Gods Greeks He Idea Intellectual Intellectual Life Life Man Men More Poet Present Priest Sacred Spoke Than Those Us Who

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Acknowledged Art Life Music Shalt Stream Voice Words

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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

Topics: Bad Because Boss First Flat Go Had Late Left Morning Murphy Next Next Morning Tell Tend Themselves Things Tire Were Will Work Worse You

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I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Deal Hidden Knowledge Meanings Seldom Verse Without

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The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Actor Another Arrived Art Critic Does Done Embodies Genius Having He His Know Mind Only Person Realize Remove Stage Task Thus Understand Unlike Work

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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

Topics: Advancement Always Art Body Contrary Course Dead End Exhausted Foresee Future Growing Knowledge Limit Living Many No Limit Nothing On The Contrary Power Run Science Scientific Scientific Truth Times Truth Vital

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One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Art Certainty Come Easily Expression Image Individual Infinite Intellect Least Light Mathematician May Mind Once Original Perception Thousand Thousand Years Truth Variable Wherever Years Years Ago

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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

Topics: Also Art Experience Expressed Expression Felt Found Frequently He His However May Means Often Powerful Something Soul Subtle Vision Vivid Work

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Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Aesthetic Form Free Free Speech Freedom Indeed Like Speech

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You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Bronze City Commerce Figure Form Hall Liberty Marble May Name Only Painted Really Representation Single Statue Temple Venus Woman You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: Unknown

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