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I respect all definitions of art, but I cherish most the definition which states that art is an expression of the desire to communicate on the most meaningful level.

— Chava Rosenfarb Exile At Last: Selected Poems (2013)

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Creativity is a life-affirming activity. Lack of response to creativity and being condemned to write for the desk drawer is a stifling, destructive experience.

A Yiddish Writer Reflects on Translation (2005)

There are times in life when muteness is the only appropriate language.

Letters to Blume Lempel (1982)

Writing is a lonely profession, and after the Holocaust, Yiddish writers were doubly lonely.

"Oh, when will there ever be peace between the old-timers and the newcomers?" one of the listeners sighs.

The crowd was in good spirits, convivial and singing, and for a while the troubles of the world seemed far away.

Letters to Blume Lempel (1982)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

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A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.

George MacDonald The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

José Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

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