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 people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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...
