There is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there.

Paul Klee

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Topic

Winter Seasons Nature

Author

Paul Klee

Source

Journals of Paul Klee

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

Switzerland Europe

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Citation

Klee, Paul. The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918, edited by Felix Klee. University of California Press, 1968. Originally a diary entry, 8 Oct. 1917.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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Medium
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Statement Type
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Time
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Era
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.

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What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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Genre
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Language
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Time
1953 1950s 20th century
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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Statement Type
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