I Sometimes Talk About The Making Of

The Nice Thing About The Bible Is It Doesn't Give You Too Many Facts. Two An A Half Lines And It Tells You The Whole Story And That Leaves You A Great Deal Of Freedom To Elaborate On How It Might Have Happened.

Nothing In The Universe Can Travel At The Speed Of Light, They Say, Forgetful Of The Shadow's Speed.

For A Jewish Puritan Of The Middle Class, The Novel Is Serious, The Novel Is Work, The Novel Is Conscientious Application Why, The Novel Is Practically The Retail Business All Over Again.

I Sometimes Talk About The Making Of A Poem Within The Poem.

I Think There Was A Revolution In Poetry, Associated Chiefly With Eliot And Pound; But Maybe It Is Of The Nature Of Revolutions Or Of The Nature Of History That Their Innovations Should Later Come To Look Trivial Or Indistinguishable From Technical Tricks.