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Walter Pater Quotes
English
-
Critic
August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Walter Pater
Art
You
Quality
Your
Frankly
Highest
Moments
Pass
Proposing
Give
Nothing
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Walter Pater
Life
May
Only
See
Counted
Dramatic
Finest
Pulses
Senses
Given
How
Number
Seen
Them
Us
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater
Religion
Without
Some
Renaissance
Account
Ancient
Attempt
Century
Christianity
Complete
Fifteenth
Greece
Italian
Notice
Reconcile
Scholars
Certain
Made
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater
Art
Age
Serious
Everything
Ad
Ardent
Century
Consecrated
Fifteenth
Impassioned
Object
Pursuit
Religious
Had
Which
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
Walter Pater
Great
Things
Renaissance
Rather
Achieved
Century
Designed
Fifteenth
Many
Then
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater
Poetry
Important
Things
Temper
Consciousness
Developed
Earlier
Element
Intimate
Lightly
Listens
Modern Poetry
Outward
Passed
General
Less
Modern
Our
Sense
Very
Where
Which
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
Walter Pater
Life
Poetry
Sense
Most
Artifice
Assertion
Literal
Objects
Rhetorical
Wordsworth
Almost
Fact
Him
Natural
Then
Which
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater
Beauty
Art
Poetry
Find
Abstract
Attempts
Define
Express
Formula
Universal
Been
General
Made
Many
Most
Some
Terms
Writers
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
Beauty
Beautiful
Power
Important
Abstract
Correct
Critic
Deeply
Definition
Intellect
Moved
Objects
Possess
Presence
Temperament
Being
Certain
Kind
Should
Then
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater
Age
Together
Culture
Roads
Activity
Forms
Intellectual
Make Up
Various
Different
Make
Most
Move
Part
Up
Which
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater
More
Things
Principles
Modern
All Things
Fashions
Modes
More And More
Regard
Tendency
Become
Thought
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater
Experience
Reality
Action
Us
Bury
Calling
External
Flood
Forms
Objects
Pressing
Sharp
Sight
Thousand
First
Ourselves
Out
Seems
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater
Personality
Experience
Way
Voice
Conjecture
Each One
Impressions
Pierced
Reduced
Round
Thick
Wall
Each
Ever
Group
Only
Real
Through
Us
Which
Without
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater
Life
Culture
Service
Spirit
Constant
Eager
Human Spirit
Observation
Philosophy
Rouse
Speculative
Startle
Towards
Human
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater
Life
Success
Always
Burn
Ecstasy
Flame
Maintain
Hard
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater
Failure
World
Only
Eye
Alike
Habit
Habits
Meantime
Persons
Relative
Situations
After
Even
Form
Makes
Might
Our
Said
Seem
Sense
Things
Two
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater
Attitude
Evening
Moment
Sun
Discriminate
Dividing
Frost
Gifts
Passionate
Tragic
About
Before
Day
Every
Short
Sleep
Some
Those
Us
Very
Ways
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater
Time
Experience
Effort
See
Awful
Brevity
Desperate
Gathering
Hardly
Shall
Splendour
Theories
Touch
About
Make
Our
Sense
Things
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Walter Pater
May
View
Ideas
Help
Criticism
Gather
Instruments
Otherwise
Pass
Philosophical
Points
Theories
Might
Up
Us
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
Love
Beauty
Wisdom
Art
Awakening
Confessions
Literary
Most Beautiful
Passages
Poetic
Sake
Sixth
Beautiful
Book
Desire
He
Him
Most
Own
Passion
Sense
Where
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Walter Pater
Life
Love
Great
May
Activity
Disinterested
Ecstasy
Enthusiastic
Forms
Naturally
Otherwise
Passions
Sorrow
Various
Give
Many
Sense
Us
Which
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Walter Pater
Art
You
Quality
Your
Frankly
Highest
Moments
Pass
Proposing
Sake
Give
Nothing
Simply
Those
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
Experience
Fruit
End
Itself
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
Art
Music
Condition
Constantly
Towards
With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
Walter Pater
Life
Myself
Sad
Me
Ours
Pass
Strikes
Becomes
How
Question
Short
Sometimes
Thing
Though
Time
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