Imaginative Literature Quotes

9 Imaginative Literature quotes by 9 unique authors

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only… — Edwin Muir
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or… — Wendell Phillips
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as… — Lin Yutang
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach… — Harold Bloom
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased.… — Mortimer Adler
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they… — Harper Lee

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