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"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."
"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
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"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."
"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
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"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
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