A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Herbert Read More Quotes by Herbert Read More Quotes From Herbert Read The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. Herbert Read philosophical historical feelings It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din. Herbert Read gay men fall An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence. Herbert Read worry hands art I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. Herbert Read jurisprudence literature law This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world. Herbert Read cutting practice mean An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this. Herbert Read erotic imagination art I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Herbert Read authority literature natural The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song. Herbert Read speech use song It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event. Herbert Read events wish war There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. Herbert Read numbers believe country The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. Herbert Read care sin spirit In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. Herbert Read coherence degrees evolution I know of no better name than Anarchism. Herbert Read anarchism literature names Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. Herbert Read emotional intellectual past Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them. Herbert Read nature science people The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable. Herbert Read skills exercise art If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. Herbert Read literature life dull Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings. Herbert Read feelings men memories The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Herbert Read balance growth law The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling. Herbert Read progress discipline feelings
