Harvey Rice famous quotes

Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.
-- Harvey Rice

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It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.
-- Harvey Rice

#Time #Lying #Wrecks

Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.
-- Harvey Rice

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O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.
-- Harvey Rice

#Art #Eye #Sky

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Tides do what tides do–they turn.

All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.