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This book delves into the fundamental principles and strategies necessary for success in literature, offering insights and advice for aspiring writers and scholars.
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“There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.”
“To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”
“Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.”
“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”
“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.”
“Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.”
“Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.”
“All good Literature rests primarily on insight.”
“All great authors are seers.”
“Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.”
“In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.”
“A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.”
“Good writers are of necessity rare.”
“Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.”
“Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.”
“The artist is called a creator.”
“The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.”
“Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.”
“Science is not addressed to poets.”
“Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.”
“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.”
“The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.”
“No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.”