Famous quotes containing the words line, source and/or model:
“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholars heritage,”
—Yvor Winters (19001968)
“Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all thats precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!... eternal fountain of our feelings!tis here I trace theeand this is thy divinity which stirs within me ...all comes from thee, greatgreat SENSORIUM of the world!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, change which suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)