Camille Paglia Quotes
Camille Paglia Quotes
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
4007 Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
3614 My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.
1712 Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.
4020 Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.
3219 The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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