Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Variant: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.”
— Václav Havel, book Disturbing the Peace
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5
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"A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role" in The Observer (29 June 1958)
Context: Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.