Pure Quotes - Page 35

• A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Feelings, Degrees

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.312, e-artnow

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• The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, One Thing, Worth Living

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• HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Laughing, Humour

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Would Be, World

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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• When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Plato, Real, Ideas

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• Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

  Robert Burns

  Morning, Rose, Dew

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.216

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• When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eggs, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Ideas, Noble, Strife

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.15

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• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  George Washington

  Men, Mind, Faces

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.246

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• I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Men, Hands

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.391

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• Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

  Francis Quarles

  Flower, White, Perfect

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.328

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• Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.

  Socrates

  Mother, Nursing, Desire

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• A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

  Walter Pater

  Weather, Light, Doors

  Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Epic, Philosopher, Poet

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Feelings, Way, Spirit

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

  Tom Robbins

  Song, Art, Fall

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• The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Confidence, Landscape, Violent

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• What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

  George Crabbe

  Christian, Race, Faithful

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.98

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Philosophy, Views, Matter

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• would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

  Jack Smith

  Play, Would Be, Retail

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• O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

  Dante Alighieri

  Faithful, Littles, Failing

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 8, 1321.

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