Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

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?

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

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