Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

There is no method except yourself.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.