Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes

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• Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Joy, Singing

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Special, Use, Tongue

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• Above the clouds I lift my wing
  To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
  Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
  To Earth I bring;
  Then let me soar and sing!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fighting, Clouds, Wings

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• Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Luck, Born, Right Time

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• Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

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  Mother, Art, War

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• The weary August days are long;
  The locusts sing a plaintive song,
  The cattle miss their master's call
  When they see the sunset shadows fall.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Summer, Song, Fall

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems”, p.47

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• Give us a man of God's own mould
  Born to marshall his fellow-men;
  One whose fame is not bought and sold
  At the stroke of a politician's pen.
  Give us the man of thousands ten,
  Fit to do as well as to plan;
  Give us a rallying-cry, and then
  Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Rallying Cry, Giving

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• No clouds are in the morning sky,
  The vapors hug the stream,
  Who says that life and love can die
  In all this northern gleam?
  At every turn the maples burn,
  The quail is whistling free,
  The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
  Are dropping for you and me.
  Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
  Hillyho!
  In the clear October morning.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Morning, Life And Love, Sky

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• Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Soul, Faults

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Egotism, Amity

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• War! war! war!
  Heaven aid the right!
  God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
  God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
  When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  War, Hero, Moving

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.111

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• Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
  Is wild within me! what may quell
  That sullen tempest? I must sail
  Whither, O whither, who can tell!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Blow, Wind, May

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80

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• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Excellence, Chiefs

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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• Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
  Your sustenance and birthright are.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Military, Honor, Birthright

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• Is there a rarer being,
  Is there a fairer sphere
  Where the strong are not unseeing,
  And the harvests are not sere;
  Where, ere the seasons dwindle
  They yield their due return;
  Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
  While the flames of youth still burn?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Future, Yield

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• A poet must sing for his own people.

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  People, Poet

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1903). “Victorian Poets: Revised and Extended by a Supplementary Chapter, to the Fiftieth Year of the Period Under Review”

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• The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

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  Song, Poet, Endeavor

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.300

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• A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Poet, Accepting, Critics

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• The imagination never dies.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Imagination, Dies

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Acceptance, Men, Tasks

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Music waves eternal wands,--
  Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Music, Soul, Wave

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.122

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• No, he was no such charlatan--
  Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
  Full of gasconade and bravado,
  But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
  Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
  Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
  His was the rental of half Havana
  And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
  Rich as he was, could hardly hold
  A candle to light the mines of gold
  Our Cuban owned.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Light, Gold, Hoboken

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• The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Believe, Purple

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fashion, Science, Accounts

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Hands, Looks, Mould

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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