Quote by Max Eastman
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the pr

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. – Max Eastman

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman

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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

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Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Too much emotion is like none at all. – Du Mu, translated

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Ere he returned, Madame descended and passed from the sparkling sunshine into the gloom of the portico, with a melancholy consciousness of the symbolic. For her spirit, too, had its poetic intuitions and insights… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897

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