Approach Quote by Terry Eagleton - Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language,...

"Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary."

— Terry Eagleton

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