"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted." — George Eliot

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Source: The Two Paths, lecture 2 (1859)

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