Sublime

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, of her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine.

phlegmatic.

he gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine.

the civilized soul will reveal itself in treating every man or woman, however lowly, as a representative of one of these creative and contributory groups.

We come from a world where we have known incredible standards of excellence, and we dimly remember beauties which we have not seized again; and we go back to that world.

Walden,