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— Robert Graves"The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites."
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
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