Quote by Terry Eagleton
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere,

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry
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The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. – Terry Eagleton

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History
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – Terry Eagleton

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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didnt want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. – Harrison Ford

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I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. – William J. Clinton

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Here comes 40. Im feeling my age and Ive ordered the Ferrari. Im going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. – Keanu Reeves

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The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost. – Tom Seaver

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. – Aristotle

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