If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hel…

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

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 dozen or two dozen times and…

Poetry - No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will…

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.