Top 4 Quotes by George Parsons Lathrop

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

Realism, Worthy, Significance

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

George Parsons Lathrop

Character, Order, Unseen

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

George Parsons Lathrop

Life, Air, Wings

George Parsons Lathrop (1875). “Rose and Roof-tree: Poems”, p.16