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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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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power…
— John Cheever
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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do…
— Tim Winton
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
— Oscar Wilde
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When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana.…
— E.W. Jackson
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The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I…
— Henry Rollins
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The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
— Richard Holbrooke
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