William Wetmore Story Quotes

William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor.

✵ 12. February 1819 – 7. October 1895
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Famous William Wetmore Story Quotes

“The Poet in his Art
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.”

William Wetmore Story

The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Ah me! the vision has vanished,
The music has died away!”

William Wetmore Story

Cleopatra (1858).

“Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.”

William Wetmore Story

The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And all but their faith overthrown.”

William Wetmore Story

Io Victis (1883).

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