In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in a….

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks..

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best..

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in th….

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take o….

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all..

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", someti….

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life..

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) wi….

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation..

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, ….

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?.

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you thin….

I think Miss Moore was right to cut "The Steeple-Jack" - the poem seems plainer and clearer in its shortened state but she has cut too much... The re….

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it e….

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks..

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art..

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence..

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The d….

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times..

Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, su….