Top 15 Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes (2024 Update)

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “The imagination never dies.”

1. “The imagination never dies.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.”

2. “Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.”

4. “Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?”

5. “Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.”

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

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.”

7. “Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Yes, there’s a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.”

10. “Yes, there’s a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.”

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

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.”

12. “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

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.”

13. “Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “A poet must sing for his own people.”

14. “A poet must sing for his own people.”

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Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

15. “Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man’s selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.”

16. “Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man’s selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.”

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

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.”

18. “Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.”

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman Quote: “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.”

19. “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

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