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Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the
surface
Is as the tossing buoy, read more
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the
surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
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Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.
The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure;
With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.
The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure;
With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
[Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
[Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of
mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of read more
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of
mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance read more
For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble,
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.