Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
William Wetmore Story
8 quotes
“Ah, me! the vision has vanished— The music has died away!”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cleopatra" (1858), Vol. I, p. 129.
“I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life,— The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife; Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim Of nations was lifted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame, But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart, Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Io Victis!" (1883), Vol. II, p. 177. Compare: "Now it seems to me, when it can not be helped that defeat is great", Walt Whitman, To a Foiled European Revolutionaire.
“And all but their faith overthrown.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Io Victis!" (1883), Vol. II, p. 177.
“They only the victory win, Who have fought the good fight, and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within; Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight,—if need be, to die.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Io Victis!" (1883), Vol. II, p. 178.
“But the gray and the cold are haunted By a beauty akin to pain,— By the sense of a something wanted, That will never come again.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor, like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression that which can not be expressed.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Strive not to say the whole! The Poet, in his Art, Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source