Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

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.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

We are all here on earth to help others.