/lit/ - Literature

>>14771226
This right here gentlemen is a man who has truly acquired the tradition of the Roman empire. Bravo, anon, bravo. Never can the frigid English language, which is for science and commerce, capture the warmth of the Romance languages, which is for describing the all-embracing sunlight breaking through parting, fleecy clouds upon a verdant field of blue flowers.

>>14756873
You're right. All I do is read, take notes, and then write an essay here or there to unite the notes with meaning. Thank you for the kind words anon. What's your domain?
>>14756880
I don't know why you're on /lit/ if you have no soul. I was not saying that it should be displayed in the Louvre for us to gaze upon with open mouths and with tears streaming down our cheeks; I was saying that art is not just a human affair; that the desire for unity and harmony in proportions, found in architecture, music, painting, math, and poetry is not just a human affair.
All your 5 month old nephew can do is shit himself and cry for his mother's tit.

>>14733038
>A man may be a democrat. The artist must double himself and become aristocrat.

>And yet we have happening before our eyes the contrary. The cheap paperback editions for poets have increased, to the joy and the consent of poets. Do you believe that this is how glory is won, o dreamers, o lyrical ones? When the artist alone has your work, cost whatever it may, had he had to use his last coin to buy it, there you have a true admirer! And now this crowd who buys you at a cheap price, do they understand you? Already profaned by their mass education, one last barrier keeps you above their desires, -- you are worth 7 francs! -- O your own enemies, why (by the very price of your works) preach and put forth your selves this impiety, the vulgarization of art! You will walk by the sides of those who, erasing the mysterious notes from music, open arcane secrets before the public, at a cheap price.