"Realizable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... people its niches. Could a poem be imagined more cunningly devised to reveal a typical poetic personality, and a typical theory of poetic method, through its way of revealing another? What poet could have composed it but one who himself employed the dramatic method of causing the abstract to be realizable through the concrete image of it, instead of the contrary mode of seeking to divest the objective of its concrete form in order to lay bare its abstract essence? This opposite theory of the poetic function is precisely ...
— Men and Women • Robert Browning
... you understand," he replied almost angrily, "that unless I or some one else who can talk to these people does go out and preach a definite ideal, a realizable hope—even though it may not be realized, even though it may not take definite shape—they will never wake up? Can't you see, girl, that when labor is ready for the revolution—it won't need the revolution? ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White |
