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Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.
Walter Pater
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Walter Pater
Age: 54 †
Born: 1839
Born: August 4
Died: 1894
Died: July 30
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Literary Critic
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Walter Horatio Pater
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
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All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.
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It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.
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