Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
Our literature is in great shape.
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