Quotes About Culture

Apontaram para o ecrã e, depois, para nós. Acenámos com a cabeça. Não encararam aquilo de modo tão estranho como eu pensei. Pareceu-lhes até bastante natural. Dávamos a volta ao mundo, estávamos em casa deles e aparecíamos na televisão. Era tão simples quanto isso.

Ele tinha-nos sugerido que fôssemos todos a uma sauna e eu pensei que devia ser o que os ucranianos costumavam fazer depois do trabalho, mas vieram-me à cabeça outros pensamentos. Se se tratasse apenas de uma sauna, não teria quaisquer problemas. Mas podia significar tanta coisa mais e eu não queria dar por mim numa situação dessas. Nem pensar.

There died a myriad,And of the best, among them,For an old bitch gone in the teeth,For a botched civilization.Charm, smiling at the good mouth,Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,For two gross of broken statues,For a few thousand battered books.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is probably no use in telling this to people who can't see it without being told.

The public will buy a certain amount of poetry if you give them their striptease." -- Ezra Pound

The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Guide to Kulchur.

Literature is news that stays news.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived or vile within the Church? Are the dances and music in your cultural halls virtuous, lovely, praiseworthy, and of good report (Articles of Faith 13), or do they represent a modern Sodom with short skirts, loud beat, strobe lights, and darkness?

Under a hermeneutic that is more culturally sensitive than biblically sensitive, meaning and understanding of Scripture can be no more than illusive mirage, incapable of being grasped. For with each change in culture comes a new context, and with each change in context comes a new truth.

Today in our late modern culture we find a growing dissatisfaction with the denigration of human embodiment and sociality that characterized so much ancient and early modern anthropology. These concerns have arisen in connection with what I call the philosophical "turn to relationality.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them who come asking for loans. But always, in the end, the tenants got the money--what they needed for a "decent" funeral, a baptism, a wedding. And as their debts piled up, they promised, "Next harvest will be good...

There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.

The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.

It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has grown incapable even of appraising the worth of other modes of expression

A Scottish, mopping his brow with his kilt was accused of indecent exposure!

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.