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“The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.”

Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

Book:Classics Revisited

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Classics Revisited

This book offers fresh perspectives on renowned literary works, exploring their relevance and impact in today's world. more

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Kenneth Rexroth

American poet, born on December 22, 1905, and died on June 6, 1982. Kenneth Rexroth is known for his unique poetic style and advocacy of free thought. more

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“The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.”

Facts Would Be Values Universe Moral Struggle Issues Rewards Determined Punishment Providence Deities Fugitive Future Life Moral Issues Reward And Punishment

Book:Classics Revisited

Source: Classics Revisited

“Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.”

Men Doe Art Said Public Art

Book:Classics Revisited

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“Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.”

Seems Age Law Order Natural Secret Mystery Movement Enlightenment Occult Natural Law Harvey Copernicus Age Of Enlightenment

Book:Classics Revisited

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“Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.”

Men Giving Doe Egotism Casanova

Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.”

Matter Reality Masters Convincing Believable Unreality

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“It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.”

Difficult Verses Commonplace

Book:More Classics Revisited

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“Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.”

People Men Littles Happens Dies Influence Passing Passings Good Man

Book:More Classics Revisited

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“Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.”

Wells Extremes Parliament Victorian Epigrams Paraphrase Homogeneous

Book:More Classics Revisited

Source: More Classics Revisited

“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”

“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”

Ifs Values Reporters Journalistic

Book:An autobiographical novel

Source: An autobiographical novel