Choruses from The Rock (1934)
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor
Source: Poems (1898), Rhymes And Rhythms, XII
Context: p>Think on the shame of dreams for deeds,
The scandal of unnatural strife,
The slur upon immortal needs,
The treason done to life:Arise! no more a living lie,
And with me quicken and control
Some memory that shall magnify
The universal Soul.</p
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Context: At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)
“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: Reviews
“Nature abhors imperfect work
And on it lays her ban;
And all creation must despise
A tailless man.”
David Law Proudfit (1842–1897) American writer
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
The Psychoanalysis of Fire, ch. 2, "Fire and Reverie" (1938)
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 562.
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 151
