Ernest Henry Wilson quotes

Ernest Henry Wilson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.”
-- Ernest Henry Wilson

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“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”
“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”
“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
“Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!”
“Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.”
“Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.”
“Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.”
“Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.”
“I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.”

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