What did John Dryden mean by: Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. John Dryden Poet · England Copy
+ We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Action, Preparation, Timing, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Faith, Mind, Works, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme, The young men’s vision, and the old men’s dream! Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Dream, Prayer, Vision, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ All objects lose by too familiar a view. Author, August 1, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Appreciation, Novelty, Perception, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ None are so busy as the fool and the knave. Author, July 29, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Busy, Fool, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ To tame the proud, the fetter’d slave to free, These are imperial arts. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Control, Liberation, Power, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Woman’s honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. Author, October 3, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Honor, Purity, Reputation, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven’s authority. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Authority, Faith, Mystery, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too. Jean Craighead George