William Cullen Bryant Quotes

• These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name— The Prairies.

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• All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

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  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life

• A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

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  Topics in Beauty

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• A stable, changeless state, ’twere cause indeed to weep.

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  Tags in Stable

• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Difficulty, Strength, Greatness

• And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Sun

• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

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  Tags in Eloquence, Poetry

• Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

  William Cullen Bryant

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Sculpture

• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Teachings

• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

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  Tags in Pain

• Remorse is virtue’s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

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  Tags in Remorse, Innocence

• The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

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  Tags in Sunshine

• 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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Poetry, Imagination

• The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

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  Tags in Heaven, Spring, Little

• To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

  William Cullen Bryant

  Topics in Love, Nature

  Tags in Communication

• Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

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  Tags in Silent, Young

• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  William Cullen Bryant

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Glory

• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

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  Tags in Moon, Tonight

• Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

  William Cullen Bryant

  Topics in Truth

• Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Changing, World

William Cullen Bryant (24)

Birth:	3rd November, 1774
Death:	12th June, 1878
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Journalist, Poet

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