When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.