There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
quote by Mario Vargas Llosa
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
quote by John Keegan
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
quote by Ferdinand Christian Baur
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College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
quote by Joseph Conrad
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Institutionalization
Any activity, if institutionalized,
Becomes political.
No institution is apolitical.
Don’t give them much credulity.
20.12.2005
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
quote by John Abizaid
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Most Of The So Called Literary Experts
Most of the so called literary experts are dismissive of rhyme
They say 'tis the poetry of a long gone time
Yet the poets that they laud the poems they do write
Cannot be put to music and are hard to read and recite
The rhymer of today is not looked on as a poet
Or is not seen as one worthy of literary note
By the so called literary experts with literary degrees
Though their judgement on what is or is not poetry not everyone does please
They never will convince the old style rhyme buff
To him or her well written rhyme is not throw away stuff
In well written rhyme are the words to a song
And good rhyming poetry to music belong
Yet the degreed literary experts who on poetry like to have their say
Dismiss rhyming poets and their poetry as of yesterday.
poem by Francis Duggan
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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
quote by Christopher Dawson
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
quote by Jose Saramago
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
quote by Fay Godwin
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
quote by Manuel Puig
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Children of Our Age
We are children of our age,
it's a political age.
All day long, all through the night,
all affairs--yours, ours, theirs--
are political affairs.
Whether you like it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin, a political cast,
your eyes, a political slant.
Whatever you say reverberates,
whatever you don't say speaks for itself.
So either way you're talking politics.
Even when you take to the woods,
you're taking political steps
on political grounds.
Apolitical poems are also political,
and above us shines a moon
no longer purely lunar.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
And though it troubles the digestion
it's a question, as always, of politics.
To acquire a political meaning
you don't even have to be human.
Raw material will do,
or protein feed, or crude oil,
or a conference table whose shape
was quarreled over for months;
Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?
Meanwhile, people perished,
animals died,
houses burned,
and the fields ran wild
just as in times immemorial
and less political.
poem by Wislawa Szymborska
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
quote by Taylor Hackford
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
quote by Leonard Cohen
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Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.
quote by Thad Cochran
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
quote by Wendell Willkie
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
quote by Leo Tolstoy
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