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Edward Dowden Quotes

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden
Inspirational, Success, Congratulations
"Shakespeare A Critical Study Of His Mind And Art".

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Edward Dowden
Littles, Cynicism, Poet

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Edward Dowden
Tragedy, Villain
Edward Dowden (1905). “Robert Browning”

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.

Edward Dowden
Summer, Spring, Moon
Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”

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