Pater

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“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common things ... or it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)

“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)