Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. - F. R. Leavis

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The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

F. R. Leavis

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

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Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

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In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends. . . They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.

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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

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The few really great-the major novelists. . . are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

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The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).

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The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

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