The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

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.

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.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.