George Edward Woodberry

George Edward Woodberry (May 12, 1855 – January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet.

Quotes

• Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe,
  Home through the clean great waters where freemen's pennants blow,
  Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go.
  • "Homeward Bound", in Wild Eden (1899), p. 45

• The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.
  • "Agathon", in The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems (1890), p. 51

• If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live in.
  • Letter to Charles Battell Loomis, Jr., Beverly, Massachusetts (December 31, 1911), in The Bookman, vol. 74, no. 5 (January–February, 1932), p. 544

• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
  • Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American (1912), p. 44

• I think that the sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love,—at least I think it is so with you.
  • Letter to Charles Battell Loomis, Jr., Beverly, Massachusetts (March 7, 1913), in The Bookman, vol. 74, no. 6 (March, 1932), p. 655

• You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city hall Commerce, or a marble form in a temple Athene or Venus; but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.
  • Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913 (Merrymount Press, 1914), p. 20

External links

• Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 112
• The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations (1978), pp. 31, 96, 105, 147, 177, 183, 201, 206, 230, 255, 271, 273, 308, 312, 336, 348, 358, 382, 398, 409, 449, 476
• The Fairview Guide to Positive Quotations (1996), p. 80