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- Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are…
- All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
- Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
- In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
- Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or…
- Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these…
- Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
- Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
- All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
- All great authors are seers.
- As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
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