When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.