Poetry Can Only Be Made

Writers Don't Seem To Benefit Much By The Advance Of Science, Although They Thrive On Superstitions Of All Kinds.

Literature As A Whole Is Not An Aggregate Of Exhibits With Red And Blue Ribbons Attached To Them, Like A Cat-show, But The Range Of Articulate Human Imagination As It Extends From The Height Of Imaginative Heaven To The Depth Of Imaginative Hell.

Between Religion's This Is And Poetry's But Suppose This Is, There Must Always Be Some Kind Of Tension, Until The Possible And The Actual Meet At Infinity.

Beauty And Truth May Be Attributes Of Good Writing, But If The Writer Deliberately Aims At Truth, He Is Likely To Find That What He Has Hit Is The Didactic.

One Of The Most Obvious Uses Of Literature, I Think, Is Its Encouragement Of Tolerance... Bigots And Fanatics Seldom Have Any Use For The Arts, Because They're So Preoccupied With Their Beliefs And Actions That They Can't See Them Also As Possibilities.