The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.