What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world. — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
![“People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.” quote by Gwee Li Sui](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/878/gwee-li-sui-74895_answers_people-have-explored-these-questions-why_2709574.jpg)