Aesthetics/Philosophy/ProseThe Poet What makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by… By Friedrich Nietzsche
ProseLanguage of Looks How well I understand this language of looks, mute but expressive, terse but emphatic.… By Mikhail Lermontov
ProseImmortal Mozart! Immortal Mozart! You, to whom I owe everything, to whom I owe the loss of… By Søren Kierkegaard
ProseThe Truth I can imagine someone copying out how Felix Arvers died. It was in a hospital.… By Rainer Maria Rilke
ProseHer Divine Breath How my heart beats when by accident I touch her finger, or my feet meet… By Goethe
ProseO Mother O mother: you who are without an equal, who stood before all this silence, long… By Rainer Maria Rilke
ProseI Shall See Her Today! ‘I shall see her today!’ I exclaim in the mornings when I raise and look… By Goethe
ProseThe Condition of Quiet That is the Condition of Vision Even to−day our country people speak with the dead and with some who perhaps have… By W. B. Yeats
ProseThe Great Gatsby Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before… By F. Scott Fitzgerald