Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster..

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, consider….

Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product….

Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what ….

And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our w….

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….

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without eve….

The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang ….

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-….

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

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….

We can't tell our life from our wish.