The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 99
... emotion remembered in tranquillity ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's rather than a man's , and it is never quite disinterested . That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so often found the love of poets ...
... emotion remembered in tranquillity ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's rather than a man's , and it is never quite disinterested . That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so often found the love of poets ...
Page 306
... emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , like hunger and sex , and at the same time to endow ...
... emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , like hunger and sex , and at the same time to endow ...
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... emotion . It is only association that can explain the ęsthetic value of the ugly . I do not know that anyone has ... emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveliness . Far then from thinking the ęsthetic emotion a ...
... emotion . It is only association that can explain the ęsthetic value of the ugly . I do not know that anyone has ... emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveliness . Far then from thinking the ęsthetic emotion a ...
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