The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.