Key Quotes from Imaginative Literature by Tim Kercher https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2018-01-09 21:03:06 UTC 2026-02-26 04:10:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Slytherin House https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220283541 ¨To seek the source, the impulse of a story is like tearing a flower to pieces for wantonness.¨ -Kate Choppin]]> 2018-01-10 17:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220283541 HUFFLEPUFF https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220283705 "facts and definitions are useful; however they do not always reveal the truth" ]]> 2018-01-10 17:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220283705 Ravenclaw https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220283900 2018-01-10 17:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220283900 Slytherin https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220284688 ¨Must literature be true or beautiful or moral?¨ (p. 1)]]> 2018-01-10 17:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220284688 Ravenclaw House https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220285074 "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." ]]> 2018-01-10 17:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220285074 Griffyndor https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220285843 "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. ]]> 2018-01-10 17:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220285843 Ravenclaw House https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220286460 "Facts and definitions are helpful; however they do not always reveal the whole truth." ]]> 2018-01-10 17:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220286460 Slytherin https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220287954 ¨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)]]> 2018-01-10 17:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220287954 Griffyndor https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220288861 "Instead of defining the world, literature encourages us to try it out in our imaginations." ]]> 2018-01-10 17:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220288861 HUFFLEPUFF https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289392
 "No definition of literature- is likely to satisfy everyone" 
]]> 2018-01-10 17:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289392 Griffyndor https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289399 "Mark Twain once shrewdly observed that a person who chooses not to read has no advantage over a person who is unable to read." ]]> 2018-01-10 17:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289399 Ravenclaw House https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289529 "Instead of defining the world, literature encourages us to try it in out imaginations."]]> 2018-01-10 17:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289529 HUFFLEPUFF https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289585  "Writers transform the facts the world provides- into experiences that suggest meanings"]]> 2018-01-10 17:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220289585 Ravenclaw House https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290138 "Certainly on of the most important values of literature is that it nourishes our emotional lives"]]> 2018-01-10 17:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290138 Slytherin https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290210 ¨The definition offers facts; the poem offers an experience.¨ (p. 3)]]> 2018-01-10 17:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290210 Griffyndor https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290679 "Why should a literary artist's imagination compete for attention that could be spent on the firm realities that constitute everyday life?" ]]> 2018-01-10 17:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290679 Ravenclaw House https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290965 2018-01-10 17:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220290965 Slytherin https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220291322 ¨Certainly one of the most important values of literature is that it nourishes our lives.¨ (p. 4)]]> 2018-01-10 17:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/3sav2gpopvhc/wish/220291322