William C. Bryant
  • A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

  • Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

  • Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

  • The groves were God's first temples.

  • Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.