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modern poets avoid science, and, it seems, because they feel inferior to it, not (like Coleridge) superior. W. H. Auden expresses the general loss of confidence: ‘When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate
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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
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“What can be explained is not poetry.”
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
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“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
― The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”
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