Animiert / Animated Betrachtung / Contemplation Geist / Spirit Kunst / Art Natur / Nature Sie selber / Herself Sucht / Searches Vergnügen / Pleasure Verstand / Mind Welche / Which
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
