I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.