Quote #2

The images make for confusion rather than forcefulness. Examine each in the light of day and it gradually sinks from the terrible to the ridiculous.

More from Longinus

  1. Genius needs the curb as often as the spur.
  2. To miss a high aim is to fail without shame.
  3. There are, one may say, some five most productive sources of the sublime in literature, the common groundwork, as it were, of all five bein…
  4. The other three come partly from art, namely the proper construction of figures - these being of course of two kinds, figures of thought an…
  5. Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
  6. Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critick with a Poet's Fire. An ardent Judge, who Zealous in his Trust, With Warm…

All Longinus quotes