Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To the one party man’s nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards him like a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.”
—Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)
“All your lovely words are spoken.
Once the ivory box is broken,
Beats the golden bird no more.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“To speak in a flat voice
Is all that I can do.”
—James Wright (1927–1980)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)