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Literary Theorist Inspirational Quotes (748)

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There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Americans use the word dream as often as psychoanalysts do.
Terry Eagleton
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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.
Terry Eagleton
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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
Denis Diderot
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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
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When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.
Jonathan Gottschall
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
Novalis
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Lord help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.
Roland Barthes
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
Novalis
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
Terry Eagleton
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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
Denis Diderot
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
Roland Barthes
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
Denis Diderot
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
Fredric Jameson
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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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