“That man would be completely happy whose desires aroused the appropriate thoughts and activities, and whose activities attained their end in gratification,—between whose desires and experience there was perfect correspondence.”
“The primitive festival, perhapse religious, of music, song, and dancing, was playful; it probably gave rise to the drama, which is still called the “play”.”
“Love thrives on half knowledge, on curiosity, and has always a mystery about it. When the mystery is entirely fathomed the love is over.”
“Our conception of time is based intirely upon our ordinary conscious thought.”
“The dreamer, while he is dreaming certainly, does not question his dream. It is the same with the matter of time.”
“As the poetic vision is timeless so the poetic product tends to be so.”
“The poet after all belongs himself to an age and country. Shakespeare must attempt to present the universal in terms of Elizabethan England.”
“The function of poetry, according to the writers on the subject, is to represent the imaginary fulfillment of our ungrattified wishes or desires. Poetry is written always in a mood of dissatisfaction.”
“The poet is seldom or never merely describes nature; he inevitably beautifies and glorifies it,”
“The poet is called a creator because he creates in an ideal world, according to our desires, what is lacking in the world of reality.”
“An image drawn from recent experience may have transferred to it a feeling which first belonged to an experience much older.”
“Gret works of literature are always developed and enriched from age to age with the growth of thought.”
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