Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes About Art
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Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
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Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
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