Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.
Taste is improved by cultivation. - Robert Aris Willmott
Taste is improved by cultivation.
- Robert Aris Willmott
It is the empiric who never fails. - Robert Aris Willmott
It is the empiric who never fails.
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. - Robert Aris Willmott
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. - Robert Aris Willmott
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. - Robert Aris Willmott
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a … - Robert Aris Willmott
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a …
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. - Robert Aris Willmott
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. - Robert Aris Willmott
No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. - Robert Aris Willmott
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.
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