<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">O Maker of sweet poets!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">So silently, it seems a beam of light come from the galaxy:</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Bereft of all that now my life endears? And can I e'er these benefits forget?</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Much have travell'd in the realms of gold, and many goofly states and kingdoms seen;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The poetry of earth is never dead:</li><li class="ql-align-justify">What is more gentle than a wind in summer?</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">But what is higher beyond thought than thee?</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">My soul to nothingness:</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Eternally around a dizzy void?</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Could all this be forgotten?</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Yet I rejoice:</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Will not some say that I presumptuously have spoken?</li><li class="ql-align-justify">I leave them as a father does his son.</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Leading the way,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">All its completions.</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Her eloquence did breathe away the curse:</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The rather for the sun unwilling leaves so dear a picture of his sovereign power, and I could witness his most kingly hour,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Moreover, through the dancing poppies stole a breeze, most softly lulling to my soul;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Spreading imaginary pinions wide.</li></ul>

Once more been tortured with renewed life. When last the wintry gusts gave over strife with the conquering sun of spring, and left the skies warm and serene, but yet with moisten'd eyes in pity of the shatter'd infant buds,

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">That time thou didst adorn, with amber studs,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">O sovereign power of love!</li></ul>

He heard but the last words, nor could contend one moment in reflection: for he fled into the fearful deep, to hide his head from the clear moan, the trees, and coming madness.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Deliver me from this rapacious deep!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">O it has ruffled every spirit there,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Who stands superb to share the general gladness:</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Let us entwine hoveringly!</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">O dearth of human words!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Dian stands severe before me: persecuting fate!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Enshrine such utmost beauty?</li><li class="ql-align-justify">I loved her to the very white of truth, and she would not conceive it.</li></ul>

Speechless they eyed each other, and about the fair assembly wander'd to and fro, distracted with the richest overflow of joy that ever pour'd from heaven.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Then Love took wing,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Of all his rebel tempests. Dark clouds faint when, from thy diadem, a silver gleam slants over blue dominion.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Yet deign, white Queen of Beauty, thy fair eyes on our souls' sacrifice.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Is there naught for me upon the bourne of bliss, but misery?</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Still fed by melting ice, he takes a draught.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">A dreary night of love and misery,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">But Selfishness, Love's cousin,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">And she had died in drowsy ignorance, but for a thing more deadly dark than all;</li></ul>

Ever let the fancy roam, pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet pleasure melteth, like to bubbles when rain pelteth;

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Those silver wings expanded sisterly,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thus, in alternate uproar and sad peace, amazed were those Titans utterly.</li></ul>

As from the darkening gloom a silver dove upsoars, and darts into the Eastern light, on pinions that naught moves but pure delight, so fled thy soul into the realms above, regions of peace and everlasting love;

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Untouch'd, a victim of your beauty bright.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">I saw her wrappit in her hood fra wind and raining.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Where Burns was born.</li></ul>

This mortal body of a thousand days now fills, O Burns, a space in thine own room, where thou didst dream alone on budded bays, happy and thoughtless of thy day of doom!

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud upon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">My wine -- O good! 'tis here at my desire, and I must sit to supper with my frior.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Oh! the sweetness of the pain!</li></ul>

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">O, lam frightened with most hateful thoughts!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">I met a Lady in the meads full beautiful, a fairy's child;</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Shed no tear! Oh shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">How is it, Shadows! that I knew ye not?</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!</li></ul>

What can I do to drive away remembrance from my eyes? For they have seen, ay, an hour ago, my brilliant Queen! Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, what can I do to kill it and be free in my old liberty?

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Bright Star would I were steadfast as thou art.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">'Shade of Memory!' Cried I, with act adorant at her feet,</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thy life answers the truth!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">As I will be of mercy! So, at last, this nail is in my temples!</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Go no further; not a step more. Thou art a masterplague in the midst of miseries.</li></ul>

If he survive one hour, then may I die in unimagined tortures, or breathe through a long life in the foulest sink o' the world! He dies! 'Tis well she do not advertise the caitiff of the cold steel at his back.

O that that door with hollow slam would close upon me sudden! for I cannot meet, in all the unknown chambers of the dead, such horrors!

so I quoted some of my favorite words from the poems of john keats.

With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death'

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Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Is Love an Art?

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

Being Loved and Loving

A premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object, not the problem of a faculty.

Object and Faculty

Another error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of "falling" in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, "standing" in love.

Falling or Standing in Love?

Any theory of love must begin with a theory of man, of human existence.

Theory of Love

The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.

The Deepest Need

Woman is not a castrated man, and her sexuality is specifically feminine and not of "a masculine nature".

Man and Woman

Sexual attraction between the sexes is only partly motivated by the need for removal of tension; it is mainly the need for union with the other sexual pole.

Sexual Attraction between the Sexes

For most children before the age from eight and a half to ten, the problem is almost exclusively that of being loved (of being loved for what one is).

Children's Problem

<ul><li>To give has become more satisfactory, more joyous, then to receive.</li><li>To love, more important even than being loved. By loving, he has left the prison cell of aloneness and isolation which was constituted by the state of narcissism and self-centeredness.</li></ul>

Give and Love

<ul><li>In erotic love, two people who were separate become one.</li><li>In motherly love, two people who were one become separate.</li></ul>

Erotic vs. Motherly Love

<ul><li>Brotherly love is love among equals.</li><li>Motherly love is love for the helpless.</li></ul>

Brotherly vs. Motherly Love

In erotic love, there is an exclusiveness which is lacking in brotherly love and motherly love. Frequently the exclusiveness of erotic love is misinterpreted as meaning possessive attachment.

Exclusiveness of Erotic Love

Love, in principle, is indivisible as far as the connection between "objects" and one's own self is concerned.

Love in Principle

If love is a capacity of the mature, productive character, it follows that the capacity to love in an individual living in any given culture depends on the influence this culture has on the character of the average person.

What if Love is a Capacity of the Mature?

To be concentrated in relation to others means primarily to be able to listen. Most people listen to others, or even give advice, without really listening.

Listen

This book wants to show that love is not a sentiment which can be easily indulged in by anyone, regardless of the level of maturity reached by him.

The landmark bestseller that changed the way we think about love: “Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism” (Fortune).  The Art of Loving is a rich and detailed guide to love—an achievement reached through maturity, practice, concentration, and courage. In the decades since the book’s release, its words and lessons continue to resonate. Erich Fromm, a celebrated psychoanalyst and social psychologist, clearly and sincerely encourages the development of our capacity for and understanding of love in all of its facets. He discusses the familiar yet misunderstood romantic love, the all-encompassing brotherly love, spiritual love, and many more. A challenge to traditional Western notions of love, The Art of Loving is a modern classic about taking care of ourselves through relationships with others by the New York Times–bestselling author of To Have or To Be? and Escape from Freedom.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Erich Fromm, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Heidelberg, 1922), was a psychoanalyst and social philosopher who explored the interaction between psychology and society, and held various professorships in psychology in the U.S. and Mexico in the mid-20th century.Fromm's theory is a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.

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Socrates died because he subjected the most sacred and most familiar ideas of his community and his country to the critique of the daimonion, or dialectic thought, as Plato called it.

The Daimonion

On the one hand, tolerance means freedom from the rule of dogmatic authority.On the other, it furthers on attitude of neutrality toward all spiritual content, which is thus surrended to relativism.

Two Sides of Tolerance

Justice, equality, happiness, tolerance, all the concepts that were in preceding centuries supposed to be inherent in or sanctioned by reason, have lost their intellectual roots.

What are the Consequences of the Formalization of Reason?

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and mediate.

Pragmatism

To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve, what sensations we are to expect from it and what reactions we must prepare.

All realities influence our practice, and that influence is their meaning for us.

All Realities Influence Our Practice

Today there is almost general agreement that society has lost nothing by the decline of philosophical thinking, for a much more powerful instrument of knowledge has taken its place, namely, modern scientific thought.

Philosophical Thinking

Plato wanted to make philosophers the masters; the technocronts want to make engineers the board of directors of society. Posi

Positivism is Philosophical Technocracy

Far from excluding competition, industrialistic culture has always organized research on a competitive basis.

The Industrialistic Culture

Positivists rely on the successes of science as a justification of their own method.

Positivist and Science

The process of subjectification has affected all philosophical categories.

Subjectification and Philosophy

In popular Darwinism, the good is the well-adapted, and the value of that to which the organism adapts itself is unquestioned or is measured only in terms of further adaptation.

Popular Darwinism

The crisis of reason is manifested in the crisis of the individual, as whose agency it has develop.

The Crisis of Reason

Individuality is impaired when each man decides to shift for himself.

Individuality

The deification of industrial activity knows no limits.

The Deification of Industrial Activity

The individual no longer has a personal history. Though everything changes, nothing moves.

Change vs. Move

The formalization of reason leads to a paradoxical cultural situation.<ul><li>On the one hand, the destructive antagonism of self and nature, an antagonism epitomizing the history of our civilization, reaches its peak in this era.</li><li>On the other hand, philosophical thinking, whose task it is to essay a reconsiliation, has come to deny or to forget the very existence of the antagonism.</li></ul>

The Formalization of Reason

The definition of freedom is the theory of history, and vice versa.

Freedom

Reason can realize its reasonableness only through reflecting on the disease of the world as produce and reproduced by man.

Reason can Realize its Reasonableness

Fascism treated language as a power instrument, as a means of storing knowledge for se in production and destruction in both war and peace.Philosophy helps man to allay his fears by helping language to fulfil it genuine mimetic function, its mission of mirroring the natural tendencies.

Fascism

a philosophical critique of logical positivism, scientific absolutism, and the rapid rise in subjective reason over objective reason.

In Eclipse of Reason, Horkheimer discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as "reasonable", but also identifies the Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the instrumental dimension of reasoning. It is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline of the Individual and On the Concept of Philosophy and deals with the concept of reason within the history of western philosophy. Horkheimer defines true reason as rationality, which can only be fostered in an environment of free, critical thinking. He details the difference between objective, subjective and instrumental reason, and states that we have moved from the former through the centre and into the latter (though subjective and instrumental reason are closely connected). Objective reason deals with universal truths that dictate that an action is either right or wrong. It is a concrete concept, and a force in the world that requires specific modes of behaviour.

Max Horkheimer

Eclipse of Reason

<ul><li>Be good to yourself first, then to others.</li><li>What you feeling is not something that should just be ignored, but something very significant.</li><li>When you care yourself first, the world will also find you worthy of care.</li><li>One of our common mistake is to compare how we feel inside with how our friends appear outside.</li></ul>

Don't be Too Good

<ul><li>Because each person's situation is different, it's difficult to draw any firm conclusions.</li><li>Don't let your difficult past define who you are today. If you do, you will live your whole life as a victim of the past.</li></ul>

Your Existence is Already Enough

<ul><li>There are many aspects of life that we can not control.</li><li>Children want to admire their parents. You won't win their admiration by being overprotective.</li></ul>

Parents

<ul><li>If you love someone, rather than doing what you think they need, do what they themselves ask you to do.</li><li>With a little planning, you can continue to enjoy your life while looking after someone close to you.</li><li>However close a relationship is, some question are better left unasked.</li></ul>

Parents (2)

Because you have experienced pain, you are able to embrace the pain of others.Because you have made mistakes, you are able to forgive others their mistakes.May your suffering become the seed of compassion.

Experiencing Pain

<ul><li>The process of healing begins when we open our hearts and listen empathetically.</li><li>Rather than trying to improve someone, just be a mirror, reflecting them without judgement.</li></ul>

Listening is an Act of Love

What heart-throbbing love brings with it are all just passengers on the same ship.

Relationships

Do not complain someone has not accommodated your every desire. The real problem may be your expectation that others must adapt you. The person who always adapts to you? There is no such saint in the world.

Dealing with Dissapointment

The reason we think we are better than others is that inferiority still lurks within us. A sense of superiority exists because of a sense of inferiority.

Inferiority and Superiority

Someone's true self can not be known by the things that are easy to judge, like physical appearance, academic degree, job title, etc.

Judgement

Are you suffering from anxiety?Try prioritizing your worries by writing them down.

Anxiety

Instead of settling for the vague hope that things will be okay if you just try harder next time, figure out exactly where you went wrong, and don't repeat the same mistake again.

Did You Fail at a Job Interview?

<ol><li>When depressing thought comes to you, remember that it is only a single, passing cloud in the big sky of your mind.</li><li>If your depression is triggered by negative comments about you by people who don't know you very well, you should understand that though it sounds like they're talking about you, their words say more about their own negative psychological state than they do about you.</li><li>We have to keep in mind that most thoughts are personal opinions based on our limited experience.</li></ol>

How to Beat Back Depression?

There is always a gap between what you know and how you act.

Knowledge vs Action

Emotions are like uninvited guests. They come whenever they want to, and leave once you acknowledge their presence. Although emotions are born inside of you, don't assume that they belong to you. That is why they rarely listen to you.

The Art of Letting Go

When someone is praised greatly, two beats later the criticism start.

Praise and Criticism

The opposite of greed is not abstinence but knowing how to be content.

Greed

Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: "The world could surely use a little more love, a little more compassion, and a little more wisdom. In Love for Imperfect Things, Haemin Sunim shows us how to cultivate all three, and to find beauty in the most imperfect of things--including your very own self." A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with all our imperfections, by the Buddhist author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Hearing the words "be good to yourself first, then to others" was like being struck by lightning. Many of us respond to the pressures of life by turning inward and ignoring problems, sometimes resulting in anxiety or depression. Others react by working harder at the office, at school, or at home, hoping that this will make ourselves and the people we love happier. But what if being yourself is enough? Just as we are advised on airplanes to take our own oxygen first before helping others, we must first be at peace with ourselves before we can be at peace with the world around us. In this beautiful follow-up to his international bestseller The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Zen Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim turns his trademark wisdom to the art of self-care, arguing that only by accepting yourself--and the flaws that make you who you are--can you have compassionate and fulfilling relationships with your partner, your family, and your friends. With more than thirty-five full-color illustrations, Love for Imperfect Things will appeal to both your eyes and your heart, and help you learn to love yourself, your life, and everyone in it. When you care for yourself first, the world begins to find you worthy of care.

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Zen Buddhist teacher, bestselling author & founder of the School for Broken Hearts in Seoul.Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, South Korea and taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for seven years.He is one of the most influential Zen monks in the world, with over 1.5 million followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. His first book, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into more than 35 different languages and sold over four million copies.His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of the year 2016 in South Korea and became available in multiple languages in 2019.

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The criticism proper betrays such poverty of ideas and such atrophy of sensibility that men who ought to preserve their critical ability for the improvement of their own creative work are tempted into criticism.

Introduction

<ul><li>When there is so much to be known,</li><li>When there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, </li><li>When every one knows a little about a great many things.</li></ul>It becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

When...

The writer of present essay (1920/1950) once committed himself to the statement that, "The poetic critic is criticizing poetry in order to create poetry."

The two latter have gusto, but gusto is no equivalent for taste; it depends too much upon the appetite and the digestion of the feeder.

Gusto

A man of ideas needs ideas, or pseudo-ideas, to fight against.

Ideas and Pseudo-Ideas

In English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. We can not refer to "the tradition" or to "a tradition". At most, wee employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is "traditional" or even "too traditional". Seldom, perhaps, does the word appear except in a phrase of censure. If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaelogical reconstruction.

Tradition

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

The Poetry, Not the Poet

From the point of view of literature, the drama is only among several poetic forms. The epic, the ballad, the chanson de geste, the forms of Provence and of Tuscany, all found their perfection by serving particular societies.

Poetic Drama

The Elizabethan Age in England was able to absorb a great quantity of new thoughts and new images, almost dispensing with tradition, because it had this great form of its own which imposed itself on everything that came to it.Consequently, the blank verse of their pays accomplished a subtlety and consciousness.

The Elizabethan Age

Qua work of art, the work of art can not be interpreted. There is nothing to interpret. We can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art; and for "interpretation" the chief task is the presentation of relevant historical facts which the reader is not assumed to know.

The Work of Art

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative". In other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion. Such that when external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

Objective Correlative

English criticism is inclined to argue or persuade rather than to state. Instead of forcing the subject to expose himself, these critics have left in their work an undissolved residuum of their own good taste, which, however impeccable, is something that requires our faith.

Argue and Persuade vs. State

It is important that the artist should be highly educated in his own art; but his education is one that is hindered rather than helped by the ordinary processes of society which constitute education for the ordinary man.

Education

Without doubt, the effort of the philosopher proper, the man who is trying to deal with ideas themselves, and the effort of the poet, who may be trying to realize ideas, can not be carried on at the same time.

Philosopher

" 'I am a poet, ' he said, and one, I hope, of no mean imagination, if one can reckon at all by crowns of honour, which gratitude can set even on unworthy heads. 'Why are you so badly dressed, then?' you ask. For that very reason. The worship of genius never made a man rich." -Petronius, Satyricon (54 AD) The Sacred Wood-Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is T. S. Eliot's first book of criticism. It contains opinions of writers such as Shakespeare and Dante and some of Eliot's most influential essays, including Tradition and the Individual Talent and Philip Massinger.

The Poems of John Keats

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Eclipse of Reason

Love for Imperfect Things

The Sacred Wood

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