The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

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

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

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.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.