Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also …

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we ca…

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.