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

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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

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

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.