Poetry is the product of earnest thought. Thought [cherished] in the mind becomes earnest; exhibited in words it becomes poetry. The feelings move inwardly, and are embodied in words. When words are insufficient for them, recourse is had to sighs and... The Quarterly Review - Page 317edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
| James Legge - China - 1871 - 526 pages
...thought. Thought [cherished] in the mind becomes earnest; exhibited in words, it becomes poetry. 2. The feelings move inwardly, and are embodied in words....insufficient for them, recourse is had to the prolonged utterances of song. When those prolonged utterances of song are insufficient for them, unconsciously... | |
| Confucianism - 1879 - 574 pages
...thought. Thought cherished in the mind becomes earnest; then expressed in words, it becomes poetry. The feelings move inwardly, and are embodied in words....move and the feet to dance To set forth correctly the successes and failures (of government), to affect Heaven and Earth, and to move spiritual beings, there... | |
| Henry Osborn Taylor - Civilization - 1896 - 484 pages
...feelings move inwardly, 1 Li Ki, xxi, i, 15. 4 Lun Yu, viii, 8. * Hsiao King, chap. i. * Lun Yu, xvii, 9. and are embodied in words. When words are insufficient...them, recourse is had to sighs and exclamations ; when these are insufficient, recourse is had to the prolonged utterances of song ; when this is insufficient,... | |
| Cambridge Philological Society - Philology - 1916 - 1058 pages
...thought ; thought cherished in the mind becomes earnest ; then expressed in words it becomes poetry ; the feelings move inwardly and are embodied in words ; when words are insufficient, recourse is had to sighs and exclamations ; when the latter are insufficient, to the prolonged utterance... | |
| Art, Chinese - 1926 - 660 pages
...becomes earnest; exhibited in words, it becomes poetry. " The feelings move inward and are imbodied in words. When words are insufficient for them, recourse...insufficient for them, recourse is had to the prolonged and repeated utterances of song. When these are still insufficient for them, unconsciously the hands... | |
| Michael F. Marra - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 314 pages
...feeling heart moves." This is a quotation from the Great Preface to the Shi-jing (Classic of Poetry). "The feelings move inwardly, and are embodied in words....insufficient for them, recourse is had to the prolonged utterances of song." Translation by James Legge, The Chinese Classics, IV, The She King (Hong Kong:... | |
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