Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned
William Butler Yeats
Related Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little s... W.B. YEATS Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Who Goes With Fergus? Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's ... W.B. YEATS Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twiligh... AUSTIN CLARKE When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats... HOWARD NEMEROV An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere amon... W.B. YEATS The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of... LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c... VIRGINIA WOOLF Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a... KATHARINE HEPBURN Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. MARC NORMAN It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo... W.B. YEATS The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the ... RUFUS JONES To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one anothe... GEORGE ORWELL .. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now. ANNA QUINDLEN Girls of this age are influenced by media, TV, and clothes in the store. The clothes they're wearing... LINDA SHELTON Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. STANISLAW JERZY LEC Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. GARSON KANIN The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals... LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that i... WALTER PATER Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age. BABETTE DEUTSCH The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your... VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your... ALDOUS HUXLEY Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth i... G. W. F. HEGEL Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. MARK TWAIN Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. CLIVE BELL Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of trut... ALBERT SCHWEITZER Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro... H. RIDER HAGGARD Art is never finished, only abandoned. LEONARDO DA VINCI Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer tr... ANDY WARHOL To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in ... MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every un... THOMAS GRAY Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, ... BILL CLINTON The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society whi... LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend i... BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women ... W.B. YEATS Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Wisdom never came from age-old books, it is best learned through pain and suffering and even joy, it... MARIUS BOTHA I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's us... DOUGLAS COUPLAND There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public lif... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperia... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperia... CAMILLE PAGLIA Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite pa... ROBERT ANDREWS Love is existent regardless of age, for age itself is a mirage. The actually truth is if our mentali... DUY NGUYEN Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. W... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY loving women of a certain age in movies and in life. MERYL STREEP When you go back into the ice age, you're tapping into our species. It's philosophic, it's religious... AL GOODYEAR The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as... W. H. AUDEN The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as... WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN People have preconceptions about women of a certain age. LESLEY NICOL People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what every... JANE SEYMOUR The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. OSCAR WILDE The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individ... GEORGE ELIOT At a very early age, young people recognize that what is worn will elicit certain responses from oth... CATHERINE BELL When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back. BRIAN CLOUGH A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I hope to meet a team that resembles (European qualifier opponent) Hungary. AGE HAREIDE I think people understand that these are training matches and that in the USA we fielded a domestic ... AGE HAREIDE We shouldn't be overly pessimistic. I would have composed the team differently if this had been a qu... AGE HAREIDE The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now... AGE HAREIDE John has matured a great deal and is now capable of being a leader for other players in the team. I'... AGE HAREIDE It's okay. It was important to avoid Spain. The Czech Republic is an opponent that I think will suit... AGE HAREIDE It's OK. It was important to avoid Spain. AGE HAREIDE Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. GEORGE AGE Bradley says. ''That's the way science works. These guys in Washington seem to think it's some kind ... ICE AGE Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been. ICE AGE Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guy... ICE AGE Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge. ICE AGE Manfred: Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without... ICE AGE Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as the... STEFAN ZWEIG Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. DOUGLAS COUPLAND Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to re... GIACOMO LEOPARDI Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. JEANNE MOREAU Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. JEANNE MOREAU Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. JEANNE MOREAU Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAïS NIN You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to a... JOHN MAYER Mass on Sunday is the traditional time for families, but it's primarily a religious feast. GLENN DUFFY Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. JOHN HOWARD You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know? PENNY MARSHALL Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number o... JULIAN BARNES Theoretically, an individual of any age could be on private property and could be consuming or posse... CRAIG TURNER Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. Fr... GINA BARRECA For old age is not honored for length of time,
or measured by number of years;
but understandi... BIBLE The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANT The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may ... NIELS BOHR The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... NIELS BOHR The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w... NEILS BOHR Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety." Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge. CALEB CARR Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. ALBERT CAMUS The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. COMPAY SEGUNDO But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves C.S. LEWIS Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch... KELLY MILLER
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gif... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the moun... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, La... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square,
Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
And her fat... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Whi... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ... WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost ... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER