Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by K. A. Phillips

Quote by K. A. Phillips

Author

K. A. Phillips

Browse famous quotes and profile details for K. A. Phillips. more

You May Also Like

“The dog days of my distant past haunt me at the dusk of my life while I get ready to embrace an eternal long night. My mistakes, my blemishes, my heartbreaks, and my ungainly acts remind me of the person I was in the younger days of my life.”

Mistakes QuotesPast QuotesDog DaysBlemishesHeart Break Quotes
Book:Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start
Create image

“There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray's assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann.”

LiteratureAestheticismTopical Trash
Book:Lolita
Create image

“Кад се предмету каже име, уништава се три четвртине онога уживања у песми које се састоји у постепеном погађању: наговестити и евоцирати – то је оно што машту усхићује. To name an object is to suppress three-fourths of the enjoyment of the poem which is made up of gradual discovery: to suggest it, that is the dream.”

AestheticismHermeticismестетицизамхерметизам
Author:Stéphane Mallarmé
Create image