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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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There is no method except yourself.
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the…
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
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