Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that...
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C. Joybell C.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Mother Teresa
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
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Roy T. Bennett
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
More Quotes By Harold Bloom
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
