Van Wyck Brooks quote: The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic...

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

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Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. - Van Wyck Brooks

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