There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone