I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.