Quote by Walter Pater
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is b

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. – Walter Pater

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Beauty
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Books
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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that its not all about characters, relationships and themes, its also about place and the poetry of place. Its about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. – Mike Leigh

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd

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Before I built a wall Id ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense. – Robert Frost

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One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – D.H. Lawrence

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Im thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings. – Paula Poundstone

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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way – thats something I dont want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort. – Dagmara Dominczyk

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