 Poetry, however little one descends into oneself, integrates one's soul, recalls one's memories of enthusiasm, has no object but itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of Poem as that which has...  Art and criticism. The magic hat - Side 48av Théophile Gautier - 1903Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Arthur Ransome - 1913 - 248 sider
...itself; it can have no other, and no poem will he so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of a poem, as that which has been written solely for the pleasure of writing a poem." Whistler, that butterfly of letters, who had borrowed his sting from the wasp, directed it with gay... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1914 - 364 sider
...intention. Baudelaire maintained that " no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of a poem, as that which has been written solely for the pleasure of writing a poem." Whistler airily displaced the noble muse in favor of a " tricksy jade"; and Oscar Wilde nonchalantly... | |
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