Sometimes One Succeeds, Sometimes One Fails.

Criticism Starts - It Has To Start - With A Real Passion For Reading. It Can Come In Adolescence, Even In Your Twenties, But You Must Fall In Love With Poems.

The World Does Not Get To Be A Better Or A Worse Place; It Just Gets More Senescent.

In Fact, It Is Shakespeare Who Gives Us The Map Of The Mind. It Is Shakespeare Who Invents Freudian Psychology. Freud Finds Ways Of Translating It Into Supposedly Analytical Vocabulary.

All That A Critic, As Critic, Can Give Poets Is The Deadly Encouragement That Never Ceases To Remind Them Of How Heavy Their Inheritance Is.

In The Finest Critics One Hears The Full Cry Of The Human. They Tell One Why It Matters To Read.