Garments Quote by Cleanth Brooks

“Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.” quote by Cleanth Brooks — Download Open image

“Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.”

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The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through…

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“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal order of the poem itself. By taking the paraphrase as our point of stance, we misconceive the function of metaphor and meter. We demand logical coherences where they are sometimes irrelevant, and we fail frequently to…

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“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language in which we describe them? When we try to describe one person to another or to…

Cleanth Brooks

“What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.”

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When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what…

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“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

Amit Kalantri

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Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with…

Adoniram Judson Gordon

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

Ludwig von Mises

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There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness,…

Mary Webb

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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Epictetus

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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Samuel Smiles

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Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

William Shakespeare

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Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always…

S. Bear Bergman

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

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The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder…

Malcolm Gladwell