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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the o
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Between religion's "this is" and poetry's "but suppose this is," there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak
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Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"
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A tragic or comic plot is not a straight line: it is a parabola following the shapes of the mouths on the conventional masks. Come
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is log
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