Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

There is no method except yourself.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.