Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.