Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who ….

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing i….

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enoug….

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to ….

Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and….

We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have s….

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudenc….

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation..

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained..

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem..

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day..

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not..

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?.

Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, reveale….

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life..

The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or valu….

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the populat….

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief….

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book..

The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where wh….

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience..