Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

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

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?