A Quote by Edward Young

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Edward Young

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Accept Dull Instead Lines Miracle Pencil See Two Wit Writ

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Edward Young
English - Poet
July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765

Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?

Dorothy Day

Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

Mary Ruefle

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

George Eliot

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Edward Abbey

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

William Cowper

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

John Dryden

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Gabrielle Zevin

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

Alexander Pope

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

Paul Laseau

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.