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/ page 620 of 1205 /I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education
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I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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