Roger Shattuck > Quotes

“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.”
― Roger Shattuck

“Everything has been said. But nobody listens. Therefore it has to be said all over again—only better. In order to say it better, we have to know how it was said before.”
― Roger Shattuck, Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts

“Words do not reflect the world, not because there is no world, but because words are not mirrors.”
― Roger Shattuck

“There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.”
― Roger Shattuck, Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time