Transcendent

Famous quotes containing the word transcendent:

“I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who “do not write for money.” It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one’s best to express one’s thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

“Through love, through hope, and faith’s transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“... effective magic is transcendent nature ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)