Lynne

“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
― F.R. Leavis

“It is the cultures of the great world religions which have shaped the course of civilization, and these possess a kind of supercultural position. (...) The three great religions of the East - Confucianism, Brahmanism and Buddhism - and the three world religions in the West - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - have been the great unifying factors in the civilization of the world. They are, as it were, the spiritual highways, which have led mankind through history from remote antiquity down to modern times. (...) In the past all these world religions with the exception of Judaism have been what I have termed supercultures - common forms of faith and moral order which embraced and united large numbers of previously existing cultures with their own languages and histories.”
― Christopher Henry Dawson, The Formation of Christendom

“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”
― F.R. Leavis

“The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
― F.R. Leavis