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“The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.”

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Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian dramatist born on January 16, 1749, and died on October 8, 1803. His works had a profound impact on 19th-century drama. more

“In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.”

Different Running Age Literature Language Differences Written Risk Media Communication Function Following Surface Bent Sharpening Written Language

Author:Italo Calvino

“The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.”

World Trying Ideas Ends Use Literature Felt Mistake Cutting Achieve Grew Models Ideals Enormous Fortunate Contradiction Communist Second Place

Author:Italo Calvino

“Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.”

Ifs Literature Goal Alive Imagine Poet Achievement Tasks Function Remains Dare

Book:Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.”

Stars Strive Strife Straws

Author:Edmund Spenser

“But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.”

Men Grace Creatures Highest Angel Mercy Blessed Embrace Wicked Foe Wicked Man

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser

“Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?”

Men Should

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

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