Gwee Li Sui Born : August 22, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Gwee Li Sui People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry. Gwee Li Sui reading people thinking Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world. Gwee Li Sui literature character world What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive. Gwee Li Sui foundation useless school
