Hardy

Famous quotes containing the word hardy:

    Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    The years-heired feature that can
    In curve and voice and eye
    Despise the human span
    Of durance—that is I;
    The eternal thing in man,
    That heeds no call to die.
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called “permissiveness” but is really neglect.
    C. John Sommerville (20th century)