A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, …

- Denis Donoghue

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

- Denis Donoghue

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

- Denis Donoghue

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the obse…

- Denis Donoghue

There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.

- Denis Donoghue

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

- Denis Donoghue

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But th…

- Denis Donoghue