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

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

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

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

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.