"Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it……" — Gilbert Highet
"Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music."
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Gilbert Highet
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31 Quotes by Gilbert Highet
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Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the…
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise…
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out…
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to…
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you…
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A good teacher is a determined person
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The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document…
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I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by…
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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