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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…
• There is no method except yourself.
• At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
• Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they…
• The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
• 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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