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Ivory Tower Quotes

W. H. Auden quote: "The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the..."
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. W. H. Auden
Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest? disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. Gustave Flaubert
My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I always try to put across an idea that I feel is important, in the most easily readable form I can manage. This has annoyed some of my academic colleagues, who feel that I am oversimplifying my subject, but I argue that at least my writings are widely read, while theirs stay firmly within the confines of their academic ivory towers. And I always work with one special rule in mind:... Desmond Morris
Tom Robbins quote: "Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he..."
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower. Tom Robbins
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of..."
I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. Gustave Flaubert
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done. Jodi Picoult
Benoit Mandelbrot quote: "Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely..."
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. Benoit Mandelbrot
Logan P. Smith quote: "When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists..."
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Logan P. Smith
Billie Joe Armstrong quote: "I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter..."
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. Billie Joe Armstrong
In my craft or sullen art. Exercised in the still night. When only the moon rages. And the lovers lie abed. With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light. Not for ambition or bread. Or the strut and trade of charms. On the ivory stages. But for the common wages. Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart. From the raging moon I write. On these spindrift pages. Nor for the towering dead. With their nightingales and psalms. But for the lovers, their arms. Round the... Dylan Thomas

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