Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Art Quotes, Eye Quotes

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

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To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

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The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

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Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

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You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

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