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

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

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.