But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
The twilight is long fingers and black hair.
Death's long anabasis.