Intellectual Work Quotes

“We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.”
― Doris Sommer, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities

“..el instinto poético es impotente por si solo (...) El estudio paciente (...) y la meditación profunda (...) son quienes desenvuelven los gérmenes del ingenio y llevan por un camino mas largo, es cierto, pero mas seguro, a las eminencias en que la mente encuentra sin esfuerzo la fórmula genuina y la imagen sensible de su pensamiento.”
― Gabriel René Moreno, Elementos De Literatura Preceptiva

“Also, we once had the moral or utilitarian idea that brainy labor must happen early; it must precede the work of love or be damaged by the residual weight of all that damp reality.”
― Grace Paley, Later the Same Day