All that we are not stares back at what we are.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.