And though that other question that I asked and can't Remember any more is going to move still farther upward, casting... Its shadow enormously over where I remain, I can't see it. Enough to know that I shall have answered for myself soon, Be led away for further questioning and later returned To the amazingly quiet room in which all my life has been spent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after g...eneration,--till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to... lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowl...edge and shining parts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescit ...dissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speech is after all only a system of gestures, having the peculiarity that each gesture produces a characteristic sound, so that i...t can be perceived through the ear as well as through the eye. Listening to a speaker instead of looking at him tends to make us think of speech as essentially a system of sounds; but it is not; essentially it is a system of gestures made with the lungs and larynx, and the cavities of the mouth and nose. We get still farther away from the fundamental facts about speech when we think of it as something that can be written and read, forgetting that what writing, in our clumsy notations, can represent is only a small part of the spoken sound, where pitch and stress, tempo and rhythm, are almost entirely ignored. But even a writer or reader, unless the words are to fall flat or meaningless, must speak them soundlessly to himself. The written or printed book is only a series of hints, as elliptical as the neumes of Byzantine music, from which the reader thus works out for himself the speech-gestures which alone have the gift of expression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him:... Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.... The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make a third she joined the former two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »