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is, in every instance, constantly aspiring towards the condition of music.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

is relative to a stereotyped world, and it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

It might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. (Walter Pater)

is seldom a cheerful place - oftenest induces the feeling that nothing could ever have been young.

Museum A museum is seldom a cheerful place - oftenest induces the feeling that nothing could ever have been young.

is the ideal of all art because form and substance cannot be distinguished.

The ideal of all art. . . whatever, because. . . it is impossible to distinguish the form from the substance. . . the subject from the expression. Walter Pater

is no moralist --- The office of the poet is not that of the moralist.

The office of the poet is not that of the moralist.

is the only way in which poetry can really reach the hard-worked poor.

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