“It’s left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. It’s also left to him to be he his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the private priesthood.”
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