Famous quotes containing the words function, theory and/or representing:
“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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