Without sensuous, spiritual is inappreciable; -- no beauty or power! And in this twofold sphere the two-fold man (and still the artist is intensely a man) holds firmly by the natural, to reach the spiritual beyond it, -- fixes still the type with mortal vision, to pierce through, with eyes immortal, to the antetype, some call the ideal, -- better called the real, and certain to be called so presently when things shall have their names."英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
"Well, say so if you like," answered Zenobia. "You are a poet,--at least, as poets go nowadays,--and must be allowed to make an opera-glass of your imagination, when you look at women. I wonder, in such Arcadian freedom of falling in love as we have lately enjoyed, it never occurred to you to fall in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air-line which separates one class from another. But what was rank to the colonists of Blithedale?"英文原著 · 《The Blithedale Romance》