Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.