I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.