Woman Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:

    ‘Remember, man, that thou art dust!’
    But yet, alas, but seldom I
    Do think indeed that I must die . . .
    Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    ... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man’s regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.
    Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)

    Or hast been summoned to the deep,
    Thou, thou and all thy mates, to keep
    An incommunicable sleep.
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist’s work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation. Art is the laboratory for making new men.
    Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)