Famous quotes containing the word power:
“Though I than Hemay longer live
He longer mustthan I
For I have but the power to kill,
Withoutthe power to die”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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 (18391894)
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