If A Nation's Literature Declines, The Nation

Objectivity And Again Objectivity, And Expression: No Hindside-before-ness, No Straddled Adjectives (as "addled Mosses Dank"), No Tennysonianness Of Speech; Nothing-nothing That You Couldn't, In Some Circumstance, In The Stress Of Some Emotion, Actually Say.

There Is No Reason Why The Same Man Should Like The Same Books At Eighteen And At Forty-eight

What Matters Is Not The Idea A Man Holds, But The Depth At Which He Holds It.

No Verse Is Libre For The Man Who Wants To Do A Good Job.

The Only Chance For Victory Over The Brainwash Is The Right Of Every Man To Have His Ideas Judged One At A Time. You Never Get Clarity As Long As You Have These Packaged Words, As Long As A Word Is Used By Twenty-five People In Twenty-five Different Ways. That Seems To Me To Be The First Fight, If There Is Going To Be Any Intellect Left.