F. R. Leavis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Mean #Experience #Quality
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Mean #Emotional #Literature
In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Appreciation #Art #Hands
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Paradise #Lost #Strikes
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Novelists #Fiction #Tradition
The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).
-- F. R. Leavis

#Thinking #Impact #Judging
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Art #Novelists #Way
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.
-- F. R. Leavis

#Doe #Fiction #Pages

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

F. R. Leavis famous quotes

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