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"Writers transform the facts the world provides- into experiences that suggest meanings"

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"No definition of literature- is likely to satisfy everyone"

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"facts and definitions are useful; however they do not always reveal the truth"

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¨Certainly one of the most important values of literature is that it nourishes our lives.¨ (p. 4)

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"Why should a literary artist's imagination compete for attention that could be spent on the firm realities that constitute everyday life?"

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"Certainly on of the most important values of literature is that it nourishes our emotional lives"

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¨The definition offers facts; the poem offers an experience.¨ (p. 3)

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"Instead of defining the world, literature encourages us to try it in out imaginations."

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"Mark Twain once shrewdly observed that a person who chooses not to read has no advantage over a person who is unable to read."

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"Instead of defining the world, literature encourages us to try it out in our imaginations."

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¨Imaginative is a source more of pleasure than of information and we read it for basically the same reasons we listen to music or view a dance.¨ (p. 2)

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"Facts and definitions are helpful; however they do not always reveal the whole truth."

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"Despite Melville's reminder that a definition can be too limiting and even comical, it is useful for our purposes to describe literature as a fiction consisting of carefully arranged words designed to stir the imagination.

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"No definition of literature, particularly a brief one, is likely to satisfy everyone because definitions tend to weaken and require qualification when confronted by the uniqueness of individual groups."

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¨Must literature be true or beautiful or moral?¨ (p. 1)

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¨To seek the source, the impulse of a story is like tearing a flower to pieces for wantonness.¨ -Kate Choppin