Search results

2004) was a Polish poet and essayist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. Przysięgam, nie ma we mnie czarodziejstwa słów. Mówię do ciebie milcząc...

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, Volume 19, Issue 5, October 1980, Pages 573-582 With our multifarious duties we may not be able to call upon...

& Other Words (1978), Part I, ch. 1: "Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972," p. 6, [1980 Penguin edition ISBN 0-14-005497-9] Wilson was not, in the academic sense...

a thing which comes from my love of literature rather than from my love of people, my feeling for people. (1980) Concentration is really a problem for...

mistake, I'll be guiding you. John Farrar in "Magic", from the film Xanadu (1980) My hands are small I know, but they're not yours, they are my own Jewel...

you read about them, it shouldn't be so difficult to relate to black literature. 1980 interview in Conversations with Toni Morrison edited by Danille K....

in Literature in 1970, he was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, returning to Russia in 1994. See also: The Gulag Archipelago (1973) Literature that...

Discontent is the root of fortune. Translation by J. A. B. van Buitenen et al. (1980–), Sub-parva 27, sect. 50; vol. 2, p. 122. When the Gods deal defeat to a...

entry, April 26, 1980 An aphorism is not an argument; it is too well-bred for that. Susan Sontag (1933–2004), Journal entry, April 26, 1980 Aphoristic thinking...

metaphorically refer to portals and other non-physical entrances. In literature, doors often represent choices or outcomes which the principle actors...

Books (6 February 1975) and reprinted in Sontag's Under the Sign of Saturn (1980), p. 92, ISBN 0312420080 In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official...

penname "Bashevis" (son of Bathsheba). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. We must believe in free will — we have no choice. An ironic statement...

Lessing became the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in its 106-year history, and its oldest ever recipient. See also: Canopus...

Ludwig Hohl (9 April 1904 – 3 November 1980) was a Swiss author noted for his radical thoughts about life and literature. Die wahre heutige Faulheit besteht...

Space: The Isaac Asimov Interview" Pat Stone, Mother Earth News, October 1980. Science fiction always bases its future visions on changes in the levels...

city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan, "Cosmos" (1980), p.285. See, for example, this Google Books link. Money economy has filled...

monument the Koran thus stands by itself, a production unique in Arabic literature, having neither forerunners nor successors in its own idiom. Muslims of...

these have also the fluent pens and tongues, it is the standard of modern literature and the press. It is not necessarily a better standard than others, but...

Nobel lecture (12 December 1968) as translated in Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980 (1993), Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Allén, World...

Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967. The fact that since my youth – I was 19...