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Stars, issue 2, December 1940-January 1941
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CRYSTAL THOUGHTS "To read poetry successfully, one must be at heart a poet, and only in proportion as one is in potential mental power the equal of the poet who wrote, can one hope fully to understand any poet. This does not mean, of course, that the reader must have any of the command of art which the poet has, or the poet's cultivated and natural power of expression, but only the poet's sensitiveness to nature and his outlook on life."--Sherwin Cody. "It would be a sad thing if we, in our age of miracles, were to lose our sense of wonder. In truth it is surprise, curiosity and love which rejuvenates the mind."--Harold Nicolson. "To understand that it is possible to hate half-knowledge, half-skills, half-hearted ideals, sets fire to something inside you."--Walter B. Pitkin. "To be defeated by one loss or even by several is not something to be admired as a proof of sensibility, but something to be deplored as a failure in vitality."--Bertrand Russell. "The poet is all wrong who said beauty is only skin deep: beauty begins in the mind. Beauty is not luxury, but self-respect."--Christopher Morley, in "Kitty Foyle". "It is only ugliness that hurts - and the awful dry places."--Jeremy Lane, in "The Fragrant Web", 191- All-Story. "Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, rad Love, with tears and joy; if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time, can set his dull nerves throbbing, and by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls, and let the new creatures emerge erect and free--make way, and sing paean!"--Ralph Waldo Emerson. "No wonder that egoists find the world so ugly. They see only themselves in it."--February 8, 1878 Fairport Herald. "When the high heart we magnify And the sure vision celebrate, And worship greatness passing by Ourselves are great."-- John Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln". "I sought for beauty in forgetfulness Of the harsh days, and the mean and bitter hours. "I found her not. Immortally diffused No bloom or light or sound can prison her, No drug of legend can make her wholly mine; She haunts the ruined hours, the lives abused, Distils her silence in the city's stir, And pours out sorrows as a golden wine."-- William Kean Seymour, in "Caesar Remembers". page 4 Stars
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CRYSTAL THOUGHTS "To read poetry successfully, one must be at heart a poet, and only in proportion as one is in potential mental power the equal of the poet who wrote, can one hope fully to understand any poet. This does not mean, of course, that the reader must have any of the command of art which the poet has, or the poet's cultivated and natural power of expression, but only the poet's sensitiveness to nature and his outlook on life."--Sherwin Cody. "It would be a sad thing if we, in our age of miracles, were to lose our sense of wonder. In truth it is surprise, curiosity and love which rejuvenates the mind."--Harold Nicolson. "To understand that it is possible to hate half-knowledge, half-skills, half-hearted ideals, sets fire to something inside you."--Walter B. Pitkin. "To be defeated by one loss or even by several is not something to be admired as a proof of sensibility, but something to be deplored as a failure in vitality."--Bertrand Russell. "The poet is all wrong who said beauty is only skin deep: beauty begins in the mind. Beauty is not luxury, but self-respect."--Christopher Morley, in "Kitty Foyle". "It is only ugliness that hurts - and the awful dry places."--Jeremy Lane, in "The Fragrant Web", 191- All-Story. "Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, rad Love, with tears and joy; if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time, can set his dull nerves throbbing, and by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls, and let the new creatures emerge erect and free--make way, and sing paean!"--Ralph Waldo Emerson. "No wonder that egoists find the world so ugly. They see only themselves in it."--February 8, 1878 Fairport Herald. "When the high heart we magnify And the sure vision celebrate, And worship greatness passing by Ourselves are great."-- John Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln". "I sought for beauty in forgetfulness Of the harsh days, and the mean and bitter hours. "I found her not. Immortally diffused No bloom or light or sound can prison her, No drug of legend can make her wholly mine; She haunts the ruined hours, the lives abused, Distils her silence in the city's stir, And pours out sorrows as a golden wine."-- William Kean Seymour, in "Caesar Remembers". page 4 Stars
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