“Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.” IfsMindHeartMeanFormOrderGivenSituationVisionConditionsTasteGoodnessHarmonyAll KindsChiefsGenerousAdmirationReverenceGiftedSusceptibilityKeenness Book:Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ
“Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.” MindHeartFormOrderChristianityEssentialsFollyAttemptingDisdainAntics Author:George Croly
“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.” WritingSelfDoneFormOrderProcessPoetWork Done Author:Muriel Rukeyser