Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

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.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

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.