The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather |
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. |
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. |
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. |
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. |
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us |
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. |
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood |
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. |