Delmore carries such a petty, personally involved, New Yorkish atmosphere around with him it's almost unpleasant for me to see him. He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkne…

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and a…

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.