It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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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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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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