#literature

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. ↗

— Paul Valery

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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#literature

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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