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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of...more

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, in...more

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Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacl...more

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Language is fossil poetry

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Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of image...more

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We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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Language is fossil Poetry.