There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.
Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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.
The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I...
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.