“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.” DoeEyeFacesHouseDoorsOne DayEarsMeetingsSensesIndifferentThrustPietyPuritan Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.” ThinkingArtSoulDoorsPoetFitMadnessSensesMuseBeatenSoberHollowMadmenKnocking Author:Plato
“Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.” LongViolenceDoorsArgumentSensesMask Book:God Emperor of Dune Source: God Emperor of Dune