Charles Tomlinson quotes

“The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.”
-- Charles Tomlinson

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

#Garden Quotes #Roaring Quotes #Acorns Quotes

“To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.”
-- Charles Tomlinson

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

#Failure Quotes #Men Quotes #Aspect Quotes

“In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.”
-- Charles Tomlinson

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

#Failure Quotes #Men Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.”
-- Charles Tomlinson

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

#Zeal Quotes

“There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second”
-- Charles Tomlinson

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

#Art Quotes #Perception Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“The cool blade Severs between coolness, apple-rind Compelling a recognition.”
-- Charles Tomlinson

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

#Knives Quotes #Apples Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .”
-- Charles Tomlinson

#Country Quotes #Moving Quotes #Style Quotes

“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.”

“The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.”

“Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

“Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!”

“There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.”

“Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

“It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.”

“The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.”