Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, but the beauty and soul in his aspect ... runs into fable, personifies every fact....
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I seem to hear Montaigne say I ... think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet ... the most suitable.Marsilio Ficino
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
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Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
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Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
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... if writing lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men ...
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