A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

- George Parsons Lathrop

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

- George Parsons Lathrop

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silenc…

- George Parsons Lathrop

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from thes…

- George Parsons Lathrop