The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Man is what he reads.