'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.