Transcendent

Famous quotes containing the word transcendent:

“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)

“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)