William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor.
“The Poet in his Art
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.”
The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Io Victis (1883). Compare: "Now it seems to me, when it can not be helped that defeat is great", Walt Whitman, To a Foiled European Revolutionaire.
“Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.”
The Unexpressed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
