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" Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. "
Reading
Hard Work
Hard
" If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. "
Changing
You
Through
" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "
Missed
Through
Poetry
" It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. "
Languages
How
Age
" I was never a monist - always a diversitarian. "
Always
Never
" Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition. "
Outsider
Eye
Had
" John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. "
Always
Students
Student
" Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. "
Determine
Think
Our
" Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas. "
Ideas
Thought
Work
" The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?' "
Test
Direction
True
" The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively. "
Me
Thought
Had
" The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. "
Humanity
Place
Survival
" The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. "
18th Century
Enlightenment
Themselves
" We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. "
Human
Nothing
Interesting
" We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. "
You
Place
Literature
" We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. "
Voice
Problem
Military
" When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. "
Ideas
Graduation
History
" 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. "
Seize
People
Think
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