What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is "enamoured" of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every... beauty?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and wa...ters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English, besides being "good haters," are dogged and downright, and have no salvos for their self-love. Their vanity does not ...heal the wounds made in their pride. The French, on the contrary, are soon reconciled to fate, and so enamoured of their own idea, that nothing can put them out of conceit with it. Whatever their attachment to their country, to liberty or glory, they are not so affected by the loss of these as to make any desperate effort or sacrifice to recover them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His moving impulse is no flabby yearning to teach, to expound, to make simple; it is that "obscure inner necessity" of which Conra...d tells us, the irresistible creative passion of a genuine artist, standing spell-bound before the impenetrable enigma that is life, enamoured by the strange beauty that plays over its sordidness, challenged to a wondering and half-terrified sort of representation of what passes understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention..., in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note; So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape;... And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »