“Wat kenmerkend is voor het schone, laat zich niet door bepaalde herkenbare eigenschappen van een voorwerp aantonen, maar legt langs subjectieve weg getuigenis af van zichzelf: een verhoging van het levensgevoel in het harmonische samenspel van verbeeldingskracht en verstand. (...) Het smaakoordeel is geen kennis en toch is het ook niet willekeurig.”
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.”
― The Complete Poems
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.”
― The Complete Poems
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