Quotes by William Wetmore Story

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The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory’s wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
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Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
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But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.
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The shadows of twilight grow,And the tiger’s ancient fiercenessIn my veins begins to flow.