"Faultlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "We are now," not "We were of yore," —"Feel how our pulses leap!" and not "Explore— Explain why quietude has settled o'er Surface once all-awork!" Ay, such a "Suite" Roused heart to rapture, such a "Fugue" would catch Soul heavenwards up, when time was: why attach Blame to exhausted faultlessness, no match For fresh achievement? Feat once—ever feat! How can completion grow still more complete? Hear Avison! He tenders evidence That music in his day as much absorbed Heart and soul then as Wagner's music ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke |
