Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.