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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…
• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
• There is no method except yourself.
• 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…
• Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
• We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
• I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
• At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
• Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
• But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…

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