height quotes

my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
  50 poems,'my father moved through dooms of love'.

You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes or endeavouring to move the passions; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.

-John Dryden
  Of Ben  Jonson.  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben  Jonson Compared'.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  Howards End, ch.22.

   What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall? If design govern in a thing so small.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'Design'.

   Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length.

- Robert Lee Frost
   Title of poem.

'None can usurp this height,'returned that shade, 'But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.'

-John Keats
  'The Fall of Hyperion', l.147^9. (Published1856.)

Thespanof a man's outspread armsisequal tohisheight.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in Irma  A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

-John Henry Newman
  The Dream of Gerontius. In The Month (published in book form in1866).

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

-SunTzu
c.500  BC  Art ofWar, ch.10 (translated byYuan Shibang,1987).