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Quote by Steven Pinker
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Mus

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker

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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. – Steven Pinker

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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker

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I read poetry to save time. – Marilyn Monroe

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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