Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.