Inward Ho!Doubleday, Page, 1923 - 158 páginas |
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ARCH OF NOTHINGNESS artist attempt beauty bosun Carl Sandburg catch clear Coué critic CURRent-Event Film delicious delights Demiurge Doctor Johnson emotions eyes faith in poets feeling Fontainebleau Fool Forest Forest of Fontainebleau Fruit of Solitude Gurdjieff happy haps heart honour human humour imagination instinct Joseph Conrad Keats laughter Leaves of Grass letter light literary literature living lonely Long Island looked loveliness lovely matter mean meditations meet with Caliban ment merely mind Moby Walt Nature ness never night Notebooks once one's Oxford passion perhaps phrase poem poetry poor pitiable reader ribaldry Samuel Butler secret seems sense sentence sentiment Shakespeare sleep solitary solitude sometimes Song sonnet soul speak spirit Stella's image strange tell terror thee thing Thomas Fuller thought thrilling tion tricities troubled truth trying understand utter Vesey Street Walt Whitman Walt's whole William Blake words write yearn young poets
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Página 116 - Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar...
Página 155 - ... or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before .evening...
Página iii - Now it appears to me that almost any Man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy Citadel — the points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting.
Página 154 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Página 155 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 118 - ... when I thought last of God in that prayer, I cannot tell: Sometimes I finde that I had forgot what I was about, but when I began to forget it, I cannot tell. A memory of yesterdays pleasures, a feare of to morrows dangers, a straw under my knee, a noise in mine eare, a light in mine eye, an any thing, a nothing, a fancy, a Chimera in my braine, troubles me in my prayer. So certainely is there nothing, nothing in spirituall things, perfect in this world.
Página 31 - Down some close-covered by-way of the air, Some low sweet alley between wind and wind, Stoop under faint gleams, thread the shadows, find Some whispering ghost-forgotten nook, and there Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise ; Learn all we lacked before ; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away ; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
Página 155 - The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine, Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Página 25 - Go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano tunes. For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me." The percentage of mania among Whitman devotees is very high. It is, in very truth, a dangerous book. If censors were worth their hire, they would be harking back to Walt, and not worrying about such pale and meager indiscretions as Casanova's Homecoming.
Página 154 - I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.