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generally called 'poetic' embellishment'. It is nothing of the sort. There is, in fact, no need for embellishment, since in all things there lies beneath the surface an intrinsic beauty which is a reality, and which has always existed in all its brilliance merely waiting to be discovered.

p48

The poet has an obligation to conduct a post-mortem on his own corpse and to make public his findings as to any disease he may encounter.

p49

There in the doorway the phantom-like shape of a woman gradually materialized. I was neither surprised nor alarmed, but felt quite at ease as I lay there looking at her. I say "looking at," but that is too strong a word, for actually she had slipped behind my closed eyelids.

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according to artists, the ancient Greek ideal of sculpture was to produce a figure which embodied what may be summed up as 'energy in repose'. That is to say a figure in which vital energy is on the point of being, but has not quiet been motivated. The attraction of such a figure never palls, but becomes greater the more you look at it, for you always wonder what this energy would become were it unleashed.... p54

...wherever you have motion, you must also have vulgarity. p55

The only way the artist can create a painting which is not just simply run of the mill, is to bring his subject to life by giving it his own interpretation. No artist who tries to do his would consider that he had succeeded in producing a picture unless his own personal viewpoint were