Creations

Famous quotes containing the word creations:

    It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower—and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Welcome the Creations Guest,
    Lord of Earth, and Heavens Heir.
    Lay aside that Warlike Crest,
    And of Nature’s banquet share:
    Where the Souls of fruits and flow’rs
    Stand prepar’d to heighten yours.
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)