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1. "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
2. "I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world." ~ George Edward Woodberry
3. "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
4. "The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life." ~ George Edward Woodberry
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern." ~ George Edward Woodberry
9. "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
10. "The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples." ~ George Edward Woodberry
11. "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
12. "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." ~ George Edward Woodberry
13. "'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better." ~ George Edward Woodberry
14. "A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens." ~ George Edward Woodberry
15. "Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?" ~ George Edward Woodberry
16. "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
17. "Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy." ~ George Edward Woodberry
18. "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
19. "A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age." ~ George Edward Woodberry
20. "I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge." ~ George Edward Woodberry
21. "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

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