The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of ….

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity..

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads….

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature..

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of ….

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself..

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic..

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from o….

In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the s….

Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and under….

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens..

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle o….

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention di….

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a….

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer..

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth..

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that..

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study..

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination..

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose..

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model..