William Wetmore Story Quotes

• Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

  William Wetmore Story

  Expression, Silence, Noble

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.308

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• The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

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  Poet, Intimate, Smallest

  William Wetmore Story (1863). “Poems ...”, p.233

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• The shadows of twilight grow,
  And the tiger’s ancient fierceness
  In my veins begins to flow.

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  Twilight, Shadow, Flow

  William Wetmore Story (1868). “Graffiti D'Italia”, p.154

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• But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

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  Pain, Cold, Gray

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.227

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• They only the victory win,
  Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
  Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
  Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight -- if need be, to die.

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  Fighting, Winning, Suffering

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.178

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• Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.

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  Memories, Spring, Keys

  William Wetmore Story (1856). “Monologues and lyrics”, p.256

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• I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

  William Wetmore Story

  Heart, Humble, Hymns

  William Wetmore Story, “Io Victis”

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