William C. Bryant

"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."

"The groves were God's first temples."

"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."