• Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. discrimination
2. perception
3. personal
4. opinions
5. rawness

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Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. by : A. E. Housman

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