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"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."
"No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's."
"For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below."
"We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth."
"Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important."
"...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness"
"I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."
"The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained."
"What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?"
