"My advice to the reader approaching a poem……" — Camille Paglia
"My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape."
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Camille Paglia
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205 Quotes by Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia has 205 quotes on this site.
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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
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Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other…
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to…
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission…
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A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy…
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
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