The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary…

The whole point of politics is to stay in touch, to be relevant to modern problems, to offer people relief from current worries, to…

— John Redwood

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

— Anish Kapoor

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“That is to say, mimesis, unlike the explicit imitation of one person by another, is never something that one agent does to another, but…

— Scott R. Garrels

“There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a natural world…

— Jean Baudrillard

Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less…

— Matthew Zapruder

Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as…

— Steve Almond

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text…

— Roland Barthes

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion…

— John Fowles

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category…

— Theodor Adorno

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“If we are right in claiming that mimesis, like the god Janus, is double-faced, both philosophical in theoretical conception and artistic in affective dramatization,…

— Nidesh Lawtoo

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't…

— Harvey Mackay

It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter…

— Haruki Murakami