“In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.”

This is a play on "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears", the last line of William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality_from_Recollections_of_Early_Childhood.
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 28.

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American critic and writer 1904–1980

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