F. R. Leavis Quotes
- Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
- A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
- Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
- The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.