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There is in him, however, a cause of formlessness from which Wordsworth is free namely, an eagerness for sincerity and veracity which brushes aside all preparation, ordering or planning of ideas as suspect of "dishing up," intellectual trickery, and juggling with spontaneous truths. Such qualities both the positive and the negative are apparent in his poetry.
But this same earth which Thou madest was formless matter, because it was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, of which invisible earth and without form, of which formlessness, of which almost nothing, Thou mightest make all these things of which this changeable world consists, but subsists not; whose very changeableness appears therein, that times can be observed and numbered in it.
When I spake of 'formlessness' it was not the less, but the more; as if, before the visions had taken mortal shape, he, being greater than men, saw them as spirits." "Never before have I talked with one who knew this master," said Girolamo, "and it is a feast." "Nay, I knew him not, for it was not easy to get speech with him, nor a favor a young man might crave.
This liturgy, transfused as it is with pagan philosophy and removed thereby from the Oriental directness and formlessness of the Bible, keeps for the most part its theological and patristic tone.
A flight inside the clouds is far from pleasant. We are hemmed in by a drifting formlessness that looks like thin steam, but, unlike steam, imparts a sensation of coldness and clamminess. The eye cannot penetrate farther than about a yard beyond the wing tips.
She knew nothing of the fluidity of the thing called Personality not a thing at all, but a state, a balance, a relation, a resultant of forces so delicately in equilibrium that a touch, and pff! the horror of Formlessness rushed over all. As she hesitated a new light appeared in the chamber.
"Dead Souls" is surely a masterpiece, but a masterpiece of life rather than of art. Even apart from its unfinished shape, it is characterised by that formlessness so distinctive of the great Russian novelists the sole exception being Turgenev.
The first obstacle to the popular acceptance of Walt Whitman is the formlessness or alleged formlessness of "Leaves of Grass." This is a highly technical question, involving a more accurate notation than has thus far been made of the patterns and tunes of free verse and of emotional prose.
But "reality" is a large term; and, as for form, who cared about it in the fifties? As for improbability as M. Dimnet says she is not more improbable than Balzac. And all these things, the ambiguity, the formlessness and the rest, she was gradually correcting as she advanced.
To Anaximander this principle was, as he expressed it, the infinite; not water nor any other of the so-called elements, but a different thing from any of them, something hardly namable, out of whose formlessness the heavens and all the worlds in them came to be. And by necessity into that same infinite or indefinite existence, out of which they originally emerged, did every created thing return.
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