the divine animal who carries us through this world for if in any manner we can this instinct new passages are opened for us into nature the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest and the is possible this is the reason why love wine coffee tea the of and tobacco or whatever other of animal all men avail themselves of such means as they can to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers and to this end they essay i prize conversation music pictures theatres travelling war fires politics or love or science or animal which are several or finer for the true which is the ment of the intellect by coming nearer to the these are to the tendency c a man to his passage out into free space and the help him to escape the of that body i which he is pent up and of that jail yard of ind relations in which he is enclosed a great number of such as were e of beauty as painters poets and actors have been more than others wont to a life of pleasure and indulgence all but the fe who received the true and as it was a mode of freedom as it was an not into the heavens but into the of places they were punished for that they won by a and but never can any advantage be taken of nature b a trick the spirit of the world the great call presence of the creator comes hot forth to the so of or of wine the sublime comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean ar body that is not an inspiration which s owe to but some and fury milton says that the poet me the poet drink wine and live generously but the poet he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men must drink water out of a wooden bowl poetry is not wine but god s wine it is with this as it is with toys fill the hands and of our children with all manner of drums and horses withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and objects of nature the sun and moon the animals the water and stones which should be their toys so the poet s habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him his cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight the air should suffice for his inspiration and he should be with water that spirit which quiet hearts which seems to come forth to such from every dry of grass from every and half stone on which the dull march sun shines comes forth to the poor and hungry and such as are of simple taste if thou fill thy brain with boston and new york with fashion and and wilt thy senses with wine and french thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the if the imagination the poet it is not in other men the in the an emotion of joy the use of has a certain power of and essay i for all men we seem to be to ached by a which makes us dance and run about happily like children we are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air this is the effect on us of and all poetic forms poets are thus gods men have really got a new sense and found within their world another world or nest of worlds for the once seen we divine that it does not stop i will not now consider how much this makes the charm of and the which also have their but it is felt in every definition as when space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained � or when a line to be a flowing point or figure to be a bound of solid and many the like what a joyful sense of freedom we have when the old opinion of artists that no can build any house well who does not know something of when in tells us that the soul is cured of its by certain and that these are beautiful reasons from which is in souls when calls the world an animal and that the plants also are animals or a man to be a heavenly tree growing with his root which is his head upward and as george him writes � the poet so in our tree of man whose root in his top when speaks of as that white flower which marks extreme old age when calls the universe the statue of the intellect when in his praise of good blood in mean condition to fire which though carried to the darkest house this and the mount of will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold when john saw in the the ruin of the world through evil and the stars fall from heaven as the her fruit when reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the of birds and beasts � we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its habit and escapes as when the say of themselves it is in vain to hang them they cannot die the poets are thus gods the ancient british had for the title of their order those who are free throughout the world they are free and they make free an imaginative book renders us much more service at first by us through its than when we arrive at the precise sense of the author i think nothing is of any value in books excepting the essay i and extraordinary if a man is and carried away by his thought to that degree that he forgets the authors and the public and only 