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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
