nerve quotes

Artists and poets are the raw nerve ends of humanity. By themselves they can do little to save humanity.Without them there would be little worth saving.

-Anonymous
Inscription on headstone in Green River Cemetery, Springs NY where Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, and other artists are buried. Quoted in the NewYork Times,17  Aug1993.

It is only when you get to see and realize what India isthat she is the strength and the greatness of Englandthat you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.

- Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)
  Speech at Southport,15 May.

   Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

- Ben Jonson
  Every Man out of His Humour, Induction.

For she was suffering that misery peculiar to the young, that they are going to be cheated by circumstances out of the full life every nerve and instinct is clamouring for.

- Doris May ne  e Tayler Lessing
  Martha Quest, pt.1, ch.1.

Mewho am as a nerve o'er which do creep The else unfelt oppressions of this earth.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Julian and Maddalo', l.449^50.