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I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. George Edward Woodberry

Knowledge Hidden Seldom Without Deal Verse Meanings

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. George Edward Woodberry

Art Age School Will Fall Painting Drama Distinctive Restricted Seems Examples Poetry Lifetime Schools Likewise Periods Within Limit Greek Often Spanish Victorian Century Sculpture Cycles Pope English Vigorous Serve Growth Two

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher. George Edward Woodberry

Truth Philosopher Way Stating Must Follow Scientist Arriving Artist Meant

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern. George Edward Woodberry

Life Death Time History Tree Tree Of Life Changes Intervals Ancient Take Almost Between Practically Were Falling Modern Place Universal

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. George Edward Woodberry

Thought Has-Been Shakespeare More Poetry More Than Anything Except Mortal Praised Been His Fame Itself Than Anything Eulogy English

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. George Edward Woodberry

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire. George Edward Woodberry

Life Experience Poet Power Live Imagination Tells Strongly Only Purity Voices Seldom He Takes Greater Because His May Place Height Much Uses Utterance Here Desire Desires