Habits are happiness of a sort....

Read at whim! Read at whim!.

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, b….

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, some….

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….

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

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place..

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

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….

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

originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté….

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itse….

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….

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, ….

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….

Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowsh….

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it..

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

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

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain..

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