How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

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.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

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

Death's long anabasis.

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.