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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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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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There is no method except yourself.
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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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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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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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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
— Harold Bloom
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If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama…
— David Frawley
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If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
— Propertius
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
— Joseph Joubert
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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music…
— Wynton Marsalis
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
— Julian Jaynes
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
— Raymond Queneau
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…
— George Saintsbury
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
— Raymond Queneau
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