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John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers

The tendinous part of the mind, so …

23 Sep , 2021  

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. Great short quote and quotation by: John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers , US essayist & naturalist (1837 – 1921)

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The very essence of literature is t…

6 Feb , 2019  

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Great short quote and quotation by: Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, […]

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The very essence of literature is t…

6 Feb , 2019  

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Great short quote and quotation by: Isaac Bashevis Singer , US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 […]

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Robert

This duality has been reflected in …

17 Dec , 2013  

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the “unconscious.” There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our “heart” or intuition, another. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert ,

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our li…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. Great short quote and quotation by: Percy Bysshe Shelley ,

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Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

We pass the word around; we ponder …

15 Feb , 2011  

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human […]

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What we call education and culture …

15 Feb , 2011  

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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