George Parsons Lathrop Quotes

• In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Realism, Worthy, Significance

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• Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Character, Order, Unseen

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• Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Life, Air, Wings

  George Parsons Lathrop (1875). “Rose and Roof-tree: Poems”, p.16

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• A nobleness to try for,
  A name to live and die for.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Names, Trying, Dies

  George Parsons Lathrop (1892). “Dreams and Days: Poems”

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