Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.
Lee SiegelTag: literature humanities
Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.
Megan Frazer BlakemoreTag: art literature
Work from your own side of literature/
Jack KerouacTag: writing literature
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
Mohsin HamidTag: life books women writing stories literature pakistan taboo pakistani saadat-hasan-manto
La emoción trágica, efectivamente, es una cara que mira en dos direcciones: hacia el terror y hacia la piedad, y ambos son fases de ella. Habrás visto que uso la palabra paraliza. Quiero decir que la emoción trágica es estática. O más bien que la emoción dramática lo es. Los sentimientos excitados por un arte impuro son cinéticos, deseo y repulsión. El deseo nos incita a la posesión, a movernos hacia algo; la repulsión nos incita al abandono, a apartarnos de algo. Las artes que sugieren estos sentimientos, pornográficas o didácticas, no son, por tanto, artes puras. La emoción estética es por consiguiente estática. El espíritu queda paralizado por encima de todo deseo, de toda repulsión.
James JoyceTag: art literature
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: literature
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.
Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our LivesTag: empathy literature mathematics
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.
Russell KirkTag: reading literature human-being what-should-children-read
Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay.
Ellen J. BarrierTag: romance literature book novel relatio
I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.
(from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)
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