Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.