Power

Famous quotes containing the word power:

“Though I than He—may longer live
He longer must—than I—
For I have but the power to kill,
Without—the power to die—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world of its own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)