The Great Stone Face Quotes

“Creation was not finished till the poet came to interpret, and so complete it.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face: A Tale by Nathanial Hawthorne

“In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Great Stone Face: And Other Tales of the White Mountains

“Thus the world assumed another and a better aspect from the hour that the poet blessed it with his happy eyes. The Creator had bestowed him, as the last best touch to his own handiwork. Creation was not finished till the poet came to interpret, and so complete it.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face: A Tale by Nathanial Hawthorne

“The sympathies of these two men instructed them with a profounder sense than either could have attained alone. Their minds accorded into one strain, and made delightful music which neither of them could have claimed as all his own, nor distinguished his own share from the other’s. They led one another, as it were, into a high pavilion of their thoughts, so remote, and hitherto so dim, that they had never entered it before, and so beautiful that they desired to be there always.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face: A Tale by Nathanial Hawthorne

“. . . the boy’s tender and confiding simplicity discerned what other people could not see; and thus the love, which was meant for all, became his peculiar portion.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face: A Tale by Nathanial Hawthorne