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 134
... imagination must be curbed by reasonable- ness ; so it was only minor poetry that was produced . Now , the fact that the general mentality of an audience is so very much lower than that of its more intellectual members is a factor that ...
... imagination must be curbed by reasonable- ness ; so it was only minor poetry that was produced . Now , the fact that the general mentality of an audience is so very much lower than that of its more intellectual members is a factor that ...
Page 168
... imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears ...
... imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears ...
Page 290
... imagination and they do not suffer from circum- stances that to the imaginative would be unbearable . The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so ...
... imagination and they do not suffer from circum- stances that to the imaginative would be unbearable . The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so ...
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