Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Whispering from her [Oxford's] towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age...Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible …

Rimbaud gave up poetry when it failed to change the world. Orwell at the end must have had his doubts about language, too, or he wouldn't have dreamed up Newsp…

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings...Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

'The ideology of cultural conservatism which sees enlightenment and art as simple antitheses is false, among other reasons, in overlooking the moment of enligh…