"The more the poet grows, the deeper the……" — Jacques Maritain
"The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper."
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Jacques Maritain
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29 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is…
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world…
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ…
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to…
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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence…
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The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and…
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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all…
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable…
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single…
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