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Poetry is life distilled.
Poetry is life distilled.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature
Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
