Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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