The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defi...ned by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes ...us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The water for which we may have to look In summertime with a witching wand,... In every wheelrut's now a brook, In every print of a hoof a pond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child's future. A child's self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from... friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But he her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed Peace;... She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing, And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wa...nts to see things clearly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wand is will; thou, fancy, saddle art, Girt fast by memory; and while I spur... My horse, he spurs with sharp desire my heart;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »