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

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

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.

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

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.