William Wetmore Story Quotes
February 12, 1819 – October 7, 1895
More William Wetmore Story Quotes
I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,—The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife….The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
William Wetmore Story— Io Victis (1886). Compare: "Now it seems to me, when it can not be helped that defeat is great", Walt Whitman, To a Foiled European Revolutionaire.
And all but their faith overthrown.
William Wetmore Story— Io Victis (1886).
Ah me! the vision has vanished,The music has died away!
William Wetmore Story— Cleopatra (1858).
Of every noble work the silent part is best,Of all expression that which can not be expressed.
William Wetmore Story— The Unexpressed.
The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
William Wetmore Story— The Unexpressed.
