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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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community
connection
friendship
goethe
inspirational
love
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Not like would I write, Not like if I might, Not like at his best, Not like or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.
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dante-alighieri
goethe
homer
johann-wolfgang-von-goethe
shakespeare
william-shakespeare
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William Allingham |
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"A thought expressed is a falsehood." In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism makes the very style, the very artistic substance of poetry inspired, transparent, illuminated throughout like the delicate walls of an alabaster amphora in which a flame is ignited. Characters can also serve as symbols. Sancho Panza and Faust, Don Quixote and Hamlet, Don Juan and Falstaff, according to the words of Goethe, are "schwankende Gestalten." Apparitions which haunt mankind, sometimes repeatedly from age to age, accompany mankind from generation to generation. It is impossible to communicate in any words whatsoever the idea of such symbolic characters, for words only define and restrict thought, but symbols express the unrestricted aspect of truth. Moreover we cannot be satisfied with a vulgar, photographic exactness of experimental photoqraphv. We demand and have premonition of, according to the allusions of Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev, Ibsen, new and as yet undisclosed worlds of impressionability. This thirst for the unexperienced, in pursuit of elusive nuances, of the dark and unconscious in our sensibility, is the characteristic feature of the coming ideal poetry. Earlier Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe said that the beautiful must somewhat amaze, must seem unexpected and extraordinary. French critics more or less successfully named this feature - impressionism. Such are the three major elements of the new art: a mystical content, symbols, and the expansion of artistic impressionability. No positivistic conclusions, no utilitarian computation, but only a creative faith in something infinite and immortal can ignite the soul of man, create heroes, martyrs and prophets... People have need of faith, they need inspiration, they crave a holy madness in their heroes and martyrs. ("On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Literature")"
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decadence
decadents
don-juan
don-quixote
edgar-allan-poe
falstaff
faust
flaubert
goethe
hamlet
ibsen
impressionism
maupassant
sancho-panza
symbolist
turgenev
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky |
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Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?
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alessandro-volta
benjamin-franklin
beranger
bible
bonaventura-cavalieri
bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri
books
burns
cavalieri
chemistry
china
copernicus
descartes
discoveries
egypt
euclid
experiments
fiction
franklin
fulton
galileo
galileo-galilei
galvani
goethe
gottfried-leibniz
gottfried-von-leibniz
gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz
gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz
greece
hydrostatics
india
inspiration
intelligence
inventions
isaac-newton
james-watt
johann-von-goethe
johann-wolfgang-von-goethe
johannes-kepler
kepler
laws-of-motion
leibniz
libraries
light
luigi-aloisio-galvani
luigi-galvani
math
mathematics
morse
newton
nicolaus-copernicus
optics
pentateuch
pierre-jean-de-béranger
pioneers
pneumatics
poets
progress
rene-descartes
richard-trevithick
robert-burns
robert-fulton
rome
samuel-finley-breese-morse
samuel-morse
schiller
science
shakespeare
songs
the-bible
theory-of-gravity
theory-of-universal-gravitation
tragedy
trevethick
volta
watt
william-shakespeare
writer
Æschylus
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
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In fact a favourite problem of is--Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
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faust
favorite
forces
future
goethe
hamlet
johann-wolfgang-von-goethe
john-tyndall
physics
problem
science
shakespeare
tyndall
william-shakespeare
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
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? Por que morian tan jovenes?, se pregunta Stefan Zweig hablando de aquella generacion y de su lucha con el demonio. Novalis, quien, casi por su voluntad, un dia cerro los ojos como un nino y magicamente murio, decia en sus cuadernos que todos los humanos mueren maduros y en el momento adecuado, cuando han cumplido plenamente el aprendizaje que les corresponde. Ello significaria que Victor Hugo, Goethe y Voltaire que superaron los ochenta anos, no vivieron mas que keats, que a los veinticinto dejo de oir al ruisenor; ni mas que Chatterton, quien despues de crear un linaje de poetas, sus genealogias, sus obras, su correspondencia, su aparato critico, sus biografias y su hermeneutica, se extinguio como una llama en su buhardilla a la edad de diescisiete anos; ni mas que el propio Novalis, que al morir, a los veintinueve, nos revelo que lo habia vivido todo.
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goethe
keats
muerte
novalis
voltaire
zweig
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William Ospina |