Witty Inspirations Are The Proverbs Of The

Many A Witty Inspiration Is Like The Surprising Reunion Of Befriended Thoughts After A Long Separation.

There Are Ancient And Modern Poems Which Breathe, In Their Entirety And In Every Detail, The Divine Breath Of Irony. In Such Poemsthere Lives A Real Transcendental Buffoonery. Their Interior Is Permeated By The Mood Which Surveys Everything And Rises Infinitely Above Everything Limited, Even Above The Poet's Own Art, Virtue, And Genius; And Their Exterior Form By The Histrionic Style Of An Ordinary Good Italian Buffo.

Every Form Of Life Is In Its Origin Not Natural, But Divine And Human; For It Must Spring From Love, Just As There Can Be No Reason Without Spirit.

In Order To Be Able To Write Well Upon A Subject, One Must Have Ceased To Be Interested In It; The Thought Which Is To Be Soberlyexpressed Must Already Be Entirely Past And No Longer Be One's Actual Concern.

The Analytical Writer Observes The Reader As He Is; Accordingly, He Makes His Calculation, Sets His Machine To Make The Appropriate Effect On Him. The Synthetic Writer Constructs And Creates His Own Reader; He Does Not Imagine Him As Resting And Dead, But Lively And Advancing Toward Him. He Makes That Which He Had Invented Gradually Take Shape Before The Reader's Eyes, Or He Tempts Him To Do The Inventing For Himself. He Does Not Want To Make A Particular Effect On Him, But Rather Enters Into A Solemn Relationship Of Innermost Symphilosophy Or Sympoetry.