poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to t… - Vernon Lee
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to t…
- Vernon Lee
A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness. - Vernon Lee
A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure… - Vernon Lee
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure…
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. - Vernon Lee
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to … - Vernon Lee
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to …
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there i… - Vernon Lee
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there i…
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. - Vernon Lee
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so tha… - Vernon Lee
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so tha…
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world… - Vernon Lee
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world…
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