Art And Works Of Art

Novels Are The Socratic Dialogues Of Our Time. Practical Wisdom Fled From School Wisdom Into This Liberal Form.

Irony Is The Form Of Paradox. Paradox Is What Is Good And Great At The Same Time.

True Love Should Be, According To Its Origin, Entirely Arbitrary And Entirely Accidental At The Same Time; It Should Seem Both Necessary And Free; In Keeping With Its Nature, However, It Should Be Both Destiny And Virtue And Appear As A Mystery And A Miracle.

As The Ancient Commander Addressed His Soldiers Before Battle, So Should The Moralist Speak To Men In The Struggle Of The Era.

The Analytical Writer Observes The Reader As He Is; Accordingly, He Makes His Calculation, Sets His Machine To Make The Appropriate Effect On Him. The Synthetic Writer Constructs And Creates His Own Reader; He Does Not Imagine Him As Resting And Dead, But Lively And Advancing Toward Him. He Makes That Which He Had Invented Gradually Take Shape Before The Reader's Eyes, Or He Tempts Him To Do The Inventing For Himself. He Does Not Want To Make A Particular Effect On Him, But Rather Enters Into A Solemn Relationship Of Innermost Symphilosophy Or Sympoetry.