The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

a culture is no better than its woods

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

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.