A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
But be, as you have been, my happiness
Ezra pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
The blind date that has stood you up your life.
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
