It Is Of The Essence Of Imaginative

A Writers Desire To Write Can Only Have Come From Previous Experience Of Literature, And He'll Start By Imitating Whatever He's Read, Which Usually Means What The People Around Him Are Writing.

Poetry Is The Most Direct And Simple Means Of Expressing Oneself In Words: The Most Primitive Nations Have Poetry, But Only Quitewell Developed Civilizations Can Produce Good Prose. So Don't Think Of Poetry As A Perverse And Unnatural Way Of Distorting Ordinary Prose Statements: Prose Is A Much Less Natural Way Of Speaking Than Poetry Is. If You Listen To Small Children, And To The Amount Of Chanting And Singsong In Their Speech, You'll See What I Mean.

Man Creates What He Calls History As A Screen To Conceal The Workings Of The Apocalypse From Himself.

We Are Always In The Place Of Beginning; There Is No Advance In Infinity.

[science Fiction Is] A Mode Of Romance With A Strong Inherent Tendency To Myth.