Quotes by M. H. Abrams about Contentment

4 quotes by M. H. Abrams about contentment

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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades...

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

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The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

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