Best 9 quotes of Frederick Clarke Prescott on MyQuotes

An image drawn from recent experience may have transferred to it a feeling which first belonged to an experience much older.

Gret works of literature are always developed and enriched from age to age with the growth of thought.

Love thrives on half knowledge, on curiosity, and has always a mystery about it. When the mystery is entirely fathomed the love is over.

That man would be completely happy whose desires aroused the appropriate thoughts and activities, and whose activities attained their end in gratification,—between whose desires and experience there was perfect correspondence.

The dreamer, while he is dreaming certainly, does not question his dream. It is the same with the matter of time.

The poet after all belongs himself to an age and country. Shakespeare must attempt to present the universal in terms of Elizabethan England.

The poet is called a creator because he creates in an ideal world, according to our desires, what is lacking in the world of reality.

The poet is seldom or never merely describes nature; he inevitably beautifies and glorifies it,

The primitive festival, perhapse religious, of music, song, and dancing, was playful; it probably gave rise to the drama, which is still called the “play”.