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Excerpt: ..."Thou art not made of stone, . . thou art human, . . thou art not exempt from mortal suffering ..." "Not exempt-no " interposed Sah-luma thoughtfully ... "But, as yet, -I have never really suffered " "Never really suffered ." Theos dropped the hand he held, and an invisible barrier seemed to rise slowly up between him and his beautiful companion. Never really suffered ... then he was no true poet after all, if he was ignorant of sorrow If he could not spiritually enter into the pathos of speechless griefs and unshed tears, -if he could not absorb into his own being the prayers and plaints of all Creation, and utter them aloud in burning and immortal language, his calling was in vain, his election futile This thought smote Theos with the strength of a sudden blow, -he sat silent, and weighed with a dreary feeling of disappointment to which he was unable to give any fitting expression. "I have never really suffered ..." repeated Sah-luma slowly: . . "But-I have IMAGINED suffering That is enough for me The passions, the tortures, the despairs of imagination are greater far than the seeming REAL, petty afflictions with which human beings daily perplex themselves; indeed, I have often wondered. "here his eyes grew more earnest and reflective ..." whether this busy working of the brain called Imagination may not perhaps be a special phase or supreme effort of MEMORY, and that therefore we do not IMAGINE so much as we remember. For instance, -if we have ever lived before, our present recollection may, in certain exalted states of the mind, serve to bring back the shadow- pictures of things long gone by, . . good or evil deeds, . . scenes of love and strife, . . ethereal and divine events, in which we have possibly enacted each our different parts as unwittingly as we enact them here ." He sighed and seemed somewhat troubled, but presently continued in a lighter tone. "Yet, after all, it is not necessary for the poet to personally experience...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153587648 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153587645 |
| Weight | 1.17 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $29.13 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 360 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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