correlative quotes

Their correspondence was something like a duet between a tuba and a piccolo.

-Donald, David Herbert
  On letters of  Thomas Wolfe and  Aline Bernstein. Look Homeward:  A Life of  Thomas Wolfe.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an'objective correlative'†such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Sacred Wood,'Hamlet and His Problems'.

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