Cultural Nourishment Quotes

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

This is the country that lives in us .... There it must find its nutriment or die.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.