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There is a disadvantage however in the comparative isolation which a special room gives. In the minds of too many students the extra flight of stairs and the atmosphere of New England reserve necessary for the success of such a room give to it a sort of mystic unapproachability inconsistent with every-day use. Nothing could be more unfortunate, and efforts should be made at the outset to reduce all possibility of such a situation to a minimum. For it is by the general interest and support of the student body that the success of such a thing...
...William was a poet and a mystic who spoke the truth in strange symbols, who spoke frankly about God and Jesus Christ and Shelley, taking them all so seriously that he seemed often to blaspheme. The simple villagers, understanding, caressed him with their sweet Devon accent, but their patroness, wealthy spinster, bristled with gossip about him. Alarmed for her daughter, Mary's mother discouraged William's presence at the manor. Hurt, miserable, William withdrew...
...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...
...life and then turned poet. Rebel against the Puritanism of her day (1830-86) she could hardly have made the sacrifice from prudishness. But perhaps it was from gentle reluctance to distress the preacher's wife, and her own family. Or perhaps it was a mystic self-denial that gave her the dream of perfection instead of the disappointing inadequacies of fulfillment. This is the solution implied by many of her poems...
Bound our lives with a mystic...