More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.