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 135
... ideas that are almost feelings . These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and the destiny of man . It is not any sort of dramatist who can find anything to say about them that has not been said a thousand times already ; the ...
... ideas that are almost feelings . These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and the destiny of man . It is not any sort of dramatist who can find anything to say about them that has not been said a thousand times already ; the ...
Page 137
... ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For nothing is so tire- some in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposi- tion of ideas that you are ...
... ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For nothing is so tire- some in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposi- tion of ideas that you are ...
Page 138
... ideas will be neither more nor less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There ... ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking modestly that what ...
... ideas will be neither more nor less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There ... ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking modestly that what ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character Chekov comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew knowledge Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit Stendhal story success suppose talent tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth