"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."

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"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Soul, Losing

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I committed a cardinal sin by starving my soul while allowing mind to have a feast!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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Explore more quotes by Clifford Geertz

"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."

People

"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."

People

"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."

Anthropology

"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."

Nature

"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."

Anthropology

"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."

Anthropology

"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."

Anthropology

"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."

Science

"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."

Science

"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."

Anthropology