What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonIt is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThat genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson