#liter

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive. ↗

— Ivor A. Richards

#literary-criticism

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

— Cleanth Brooks

#literary-criticism

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#writing #literary-criticism

Стихи нельзя объяснить - только понять. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

У влюбленного в безмолвие поэта есть одно спасение - речь. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

For more than half a century I have tried to confront greatness directly, hardly a fashionable stance, but I see no other justification for literary criticism in the shadows of our Evening Land. Over time the strong poets settle these matters for themselves, and precursors remain alive in their progeny. Readers in our flooded landscape use their own perceptiveness. But an advance can be of some help. If you believe that the canon in time will select itself, you still can follow a critical impulse to hasten the process, as I did with the later Stevens, Ashbury, and, more recently, Henri Cole. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#literary-criticism

It seems to me as natural annd necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#nature

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#poetry #surrealism #nature

That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#religion #transgressive-literature #religion

The universe is God's son. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #god-s-son #literature #philosophy #poetry