The Nigger of the Narcissus: A Tale of the ForecastleDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 217 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii - ... the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other...
Pàgina xiii - To arrest, for the space of a breath, the hands busy about the work of the earth, and compel men entranced by the sight of distant goals to glance for a moment at the surrounding vision of form and colour, of sunshine and shadows; to make them pause for a look, for a sigh, for a smile — such is the aim, difficult and evanescent, and reserved only for a very few to achieve.
Pàgina x - ... it is only through an unremitting never-discouraged care for the shape and ring of sentences that an approach can be made to plasticity, to colour, and that the light of magic suggestiveness may be brought to play for an evanescent instant over the commonplace surface of words: of the old, old words, worn thin, defaced by ages of careless usage.
Pàgina xi - ... that feeling of unavoidable solidarity; of the solidarity in mysterious origin, in toil, in joy, in hope, in uncertain fate, which binds men to each other and all mankind to the visible world.
Pàgina x - All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its appeal through the senses, if its high desire is to reach the secret spring of responsive emotions. It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic suggestiveness of music — which is the art of arts.
Pàgina 205 - Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives ? Good-bye, brothers ! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail ; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.
Pàgina vii - And art itself may be defined as a singleminded attempt to render the highest kind of justice? to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.
Pàgina 31 - The passage had begun, and the ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet. Round her the abysses of sky and sea met in an unattainable frontier. A great circular solitude moved with her, ever changing and ever the same, always monotonous and always imposing.
Pàgina 192 - The great flagship of the race ; stronger than the storms ! and anchored in the open sea.
Pàgina viii - Confronted by the same enigmatical spectacle the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms of his appeal.