The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

What counts is the cultural level

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.