The Public Library Is The Most Dangerous

The Success Of The Poem Is Determined Not By How Much The Poet Felt In Writing It, But By How Much The Reader Feels In Reading It.

Conviction Is Possible Only In A World More Primitive Than Ours Can Be Perceived To Be. A Man Can Achieve A Simply Gnomic Conviction Only By Ignoring The Radical Describers Of His Environment, Or By Hating Them, As Convinced Men Have Hated, Say, Darwin And Freud, As Agents Of Some Devil.

Who Could Believe An Ant In Theory? A Giraffe In Blueprint? Ten Thousand Doctors Of What's Possible Could Reason Half The Jungle Out Of Being.

Written By A Sponge Dipped In Warm Milk And Sprinkled With Sugar.

To Read A Poem With No Thought In Mind But To Paraphrase It Into A Single, Simple And Usually High-minded Prose Statement Is The Destruction Of Poetry.