Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

Death's long anabasis.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

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.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

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.