William Cowper Quotes about Art

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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

William Cowper

Art, Painting, Quench

William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1837). “The Works of William Cowper: Posthumous poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne. Translations of the Latin and Italian poems of Milton. Epigrams translated from the Latin of Owen. Translations of Greek verses. Translations from the Fables of Gay. Adam: a sacred drama, translated from the Italian of Andreini”, p.65

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

William Cowper

Art, Farewell, Sound

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author”, p.484

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

William Cowper

God, Art, Crowns

William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.58

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

William Cowper

Art, Deer, England

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

William Cowper

Art, Poetry, Mechanic

'Table Talk' (1782) l. 654 (on Pope)

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

William Cowper

Art, Passion, Poetry

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

William Cowper

Art, Immortality

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini”, p.283

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?

William Cowper

Success, Art, Battle

William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.63