My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest … - Sidney Lanier

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We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.

Sidney Lanier

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

Artist, Bitterness, Criticism, Priciple, Regardless

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I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

Cowley, Faults, Metaphor, Patness, Style, Waller

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.

Came, Lasts, Shame, Tree, Woods

Look out, Death: I am coming. -Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have. -What memories of old battles. -Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

Art, Battle, Bring, Memories

Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Float in the blue skies ravishing. Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring That's sweet, albeit fleeting. Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home: And when thou to a rose shalt come That hath begun to show her bloom, Say, I send her greeting!

Rose, Song, Spring, Sweet

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Acquired, Inspirational, Life, Rests, Wholly, Wisdom