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Love is the poetry of the senses.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other read more
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect read more
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do read more
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them read more
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the
seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it read more
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.
