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Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

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The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not...more

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Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

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What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should l...more