George Parsons Lathrop quotes

George Parsons Lathrop quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.”
-- George Parsons Lathrop

Source : George Parsons Lathrop (1875). “Rose and Roof-tree: Poems”, p.16

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“In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.”
-- George Parsons Lathrop

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“Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.”
-- George Parsons Lathrop

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“A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.”
-- George Parsons Lathrop

Source : George Parsons Lathrop (1892). “Dreams and Days: Poems”

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