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"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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"They never fail who die in a great cause."
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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
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"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."
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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"Shakespeare is universal."
Literature
"No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem."
Literature
"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron."
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"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."
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"Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage."
Literature
"I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist."
Criticism
"We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are."
People
"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering."
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"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
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"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."
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