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The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Agriculture Arises Contact Fighting Habits Human Incorporated Individuals Life Mathematics Military Multiplicity Strategy Tactics Through Ways World

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The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: All The World Diversified Earth Identity Image Language Literature Logic Men Minds Necessary Notion Once Ourselves Speech Tongues Various Vocal Which World

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Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Between Express Only Ourselves Really Signs Things Thought Through Which Words

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Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Because Desire Desires Experience Greater He Height Here His Imagination Life Live May Much Only Place Poet Power Purity Seldom Strongly Takes Tells Uses Voices

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The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Baptized Condition Consumes Craves Creative Emotion Feeds Fire He Him Only Poet Power

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The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Action Attempt Been Casual Civilization Control Effort Emotion Great Impressions Introduce Law Makes Men Principle Spontaneous Still Swayed Thought Up Which

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From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: About Altar Beginning Blood Charged Dance Days Frame God Goethe His Hugo Leader Less Life Men Name Other Passion Phrase Poet Poetic Rude Singularity Temperament Victor Which

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Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Artist Artistic Beautiful Creation Fact Fullness History Mankind Process Pure Soul Surest

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I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Believe Born Character Every Every Man Ideal Man Perfection Potentially Who World I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: Unknown

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