Precaution Is Better Than Cure.

There Is A Great Difference, Whether The Poet Seeks The Particular For The Sake Of The General Or Sees The General In The Particular. From The Former Procedure There Ensues Allegory, In Which The Particular Serves Only As Illustration, As Example Of The General. The Latter Procedure, However, Is Genuinely The Nature Of Poetry; It Expresses Something Particular, Without Thinking Of The General Or Pointing To It.

If We Are Out Of Synch With Ourselves, Everything Is Out Of Synch For Us.

In Art It's Not The Thinking That Does The Job, But Making.

One Of The Most Striking Signs Of The Decay Of Art Is The Intermixing Of Different Genres.

All Theory, Dear Friend, Is Gray, But The Golden Tree Of Life Springs Ever Green.