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

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

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.

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