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"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."

"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."

"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
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