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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time…
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular…
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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…
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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying…
— Sylvia Plath
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I…
— Bill Tilden
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
— George Santayana
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
— Bill Tilden
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The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree…
— John Constable
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as…
— Susan Sontag
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Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
— Charles Darwin
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
— Oscar Wilde
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