Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet.
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The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth
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