Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.