What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.