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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of... →
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the... →
You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene'... →
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the... →
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek... →
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come... →
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of... →
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was... →
'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's... →
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of... →
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an... →
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