Composing mortals with immortal fire.
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Drama is based on the Mistake.
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.