"That sense of a life in natural objects,……" — Walter Pater
"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."
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45 Quotes by Walter Pater
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- Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
- Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
- What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
- In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
- At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
- The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
- Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
- All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
- Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
- A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
- A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
- And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated…
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