Swedenborg, of all men in the recent ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought. I do not know the man in history...

The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. For, though life is great, and...

Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...

Letter XXI I HAVE remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold...

Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the...

The functions of the poetical faculty are twofold: by one it creates new materials of knowledge, and power, and pleasure; by the other it...

Chapter 48 Pursue knowledge, daily gain Pursue Tao, daily loss Loss and more loss Until one reaches unattached action With unattached...

Letter XIII ON a first survey, nothing appears more opposed than these two impulsions; one having for its object change, the other...

Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...