Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.