Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.