The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.