Between Religion's This Is And Poetry's But

Horace, In A Particularly Boastful Mood, Once Said His Verse Would Last As Long As The Vestal Virgins Kept Going Up The Capitoline Hill To Worship At The Temple Of Jupiter. But Horace's Poetry Has Lasted Longer Than Jupiter's Religion, And Jupiter Himself Has Only Survived Because He Disappeared Into Literature.

We Have Revolutionary Thought Whenever The Feeling "life Is A Dream" Becomes Geared To An Impulse To Awaken From It.

The Tremendous Efficiency And Economy Of The Book Has Once Again Demonstrated Itself. It's The World's Most Patient Medium.

We Are Being Swallowed Up By The Popular Culture Of The United States, But Then The Americans Are Being Swallowed Up By It Too. It's Just As Much A Threat To American Culture As It Is To Ours.

Culture's Essential Service To A Religion Is To Destroy Intellectual Idolatry, The Recurrent Tendency In Religion To Replace The Object Of Its Worship With Its Present Understanding And Forms Of Approach To That Object.