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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
-James Joyce
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Every Age Must Look For Its Sanction

James Joyce
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. so poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the platonic ideas through the particular and by means of examples. philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. one sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.
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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. youth is full sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; youth is wild, age is tame. age, i do abhor thee; youth, i do adore thee.
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