Awakened

Famous quotes containing the word awakened:

    The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours,
    The sentimentalist himself; while art
    Is but a vision of reality.
    What portion in the world can the artist have
    Who has awakened from the common dream
    But dissipation and despair?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    And yet no greater, but more eminent,
    Love by the spring is grown;
    As, in the firmament,
    Stars by the sun are not enlarged, but shown,
    Gentle love deeds, as blossoms on a bough,
    From love’s awakened root do bud out now.
    John Donne (1572–1631)