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Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify... →
Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful... →
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in... →
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts.... →
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as... →
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would... →
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the... →
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own... →
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of... →
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him... →
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person... →
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which... →
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