Portraits and SpeculationsMacmillan and Company, limited, 1913 - 223 páginas |
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ALOYSIUS BERTRAND Art for Art's Art for Life's art's sake artist beautiful believe Bertrand Birth of Tragedy brain butterfly Callot century code of values colour conception Coppée Coppée's criticism Daudet Dijon Dionysian Dionysus dreams Edmond de Goncourt essay Eternal Recurrence example expression eyes feel fleur du silence fleur hypocrite flux formula FRANÇOIS COPPÉE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Gaspard ideas intellectual Japanese kinetic and potential kinetic speech laughter LIFE'S SAKE listen literature Marius means mind mood morality nature never Nietzsche Nietzsche's Nuit Paris Pater perfect perhaps personality philosopher Physique de l'Amour picture Plato poem poet poetry portrait possible potential speech prose realised recognise Rembrandt Remy de Gourmont Romantic sentences sometimes song soul speak story suggestion Symbolist tale theory things thinker thought tion truth unconscious verse walked WALTER PATER words writes written wrote Yone Noguchi Yoshio Markino
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Página 113 - And if the Babe is born a Boy He's given to a Woman Old, Who nails him down upon a rock, Catches his shrieks in cups of gold.
Página 169 - Nommer un objet, c'est supprimer les trois quarts de la jouissance du poème qui est faite du bonheur de deviner peu à peu; le suggérer, voilà le rêve.
Página 90 - The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving, speciespreserving; perhaps species-rearing...
Página 144 - In later years he came upon philosophies which occupied him much in the estimate of the proportion of the sensuous and the ideal elements in human knowledge, the relative parts they bear in it ; and, in his intellectual scheme, was led to assign very little to the abstract thought, and much to its sensible vehicle or occasion.
Página 147 - All the laws of good writing aim at a similar unity or identity of the mind in all the processes by which the, word is associated to its import. The term is right, and has its essential beauty, when it becomes, in a manner, what it signifies, as with the names of simple sensations.
Página 145 - For just in proportion as the writer's aim, consciously or unconsciously, comes to be the transcribing, not of the world, not of mere fact, but of his sense of it, he becomes an artist, his work fine art...
Página 4 - There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Página 145 - Literary art, that is, like all art which is in any way imitative or reproductive of fact — form, or colour, or incident — is the representation of such fact as connected with soul, of a specific personality, in its preferences, its volition and power.
Página 198 - In a Symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance. And if both the Speech be itself high, and the Silence fit and noble, how expressive will their union be!
Página 103 - I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone : - let us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem. What I here propound is true : - therefore it cannot die : or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will 'rise again to the Life Everlasting'.