The Primary And Literal Meaning

Popular Art Is Normally Decried As Vulgar By The Cultivated People Of Its Time; Then It Loses Favor With Its Original Audience As A New Generation Grows Up; Then It Begins To Merge Into The Softer Lighting Of

I Soon Realized That A Student Of English Literature Who Does Not Know The Bible Does Not Understand A Good Deal Of What Is Going On In What He Reads: The Most Conscientous Student Will Be Continually Misconstruing The Implications, Even The Meaning.

Nobody Is Capable Of Of Free Speech Unless He Knows How To Use Language, And Such Knowledge Is Not A Gift: It Has To Learned And Worked At.

There Is A Curious Law Of Art... That Even The Attempt To Reproduce The Act Of Seeing, When Carried Out With Sufficient Energy, Tends To Lose Its Realism And Take On The Unnatural Glittering Intensity Of Hallucination.

A Person Who Knows Nothing About Literature May Be An Ignoramus, But Many People Don't Mind Being That.