Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

Death's long anabasis.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.