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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

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He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

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And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

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But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

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Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

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Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

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We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

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Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

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The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

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Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

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If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

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Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

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People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

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