agency

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• Mar 14 The Still More Difficult Art Friedrich Schiller, Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letter XV With beauty man shall only play, and it is with beauty only that he shall play. For, to speak out on...
• Mar 8 Fixities and Definites Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIII The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and a...
• Feb 22 The Hope of Pleasure in the Work Itself William Morris, Useful Work versus Useless Toil The hope of pleasure in the work itself: how strange that hope must seem to some of my readers—to mo...
• Feb 7 The Poetic Faculty Henry David Thoreau, Walden There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's buildi...