“To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Intimations of Immortality Stanza 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.”
This is a play on "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears", the last line of William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality_from_Recollections_of_Early_Childhood. <br class="br">Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 28.
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