Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analysing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
D.H. LawrenceTags: science art reason literary-criticism write read emotion feeling interpretation jargon interpret analyze
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
Think rather,--call to thought, if now you grieve a little,
The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.
Men loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
Now, and I muse for why and never find the reason,
I pace the earth, and drink the air, and feel the sun.
Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.
Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation--
Oh why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?
Tags: life injustice soul sleep death emotion grief birth rest heaven-and-earth be-still-my-soul xlviii
Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?
Rick RiordanTags: love hurt emotion feelings
Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.
Thomm QuackenbushAri!" Jeb had finally seen his son. He rushed to Ari's side and knelt next to him. Looking stunned, he gathered Ari's hulking form and held him to his chest. "I'm so sorry." I saw his mouth shape the words, though I couldn't hear them. "I'm so sorry." He bent over Ari's form, mindless of his vulnerable position.
James PattersonTags: emotion sad feelings max sorry jeb expire ari
Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering.
She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken.
Tags: empathy understanding emotion sympathy feelings heartbreak feelings-of-weakness
Love is a decision - not an emotion!
Lao TzuOne foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.
Taylor StevensTags: pain rage loss darkness light danger dead emotion waiting hospital lethal aimlessness one-step-at-a-time
The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.
Taylor StevensTags: pain compassion empathy suffering human emotion monster
It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: emotion alienation development
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