Nature Is Inside Art As Its Content,

The First Thing That Confronts Us In Studying Verbal Structures Is That They Are Arranged Sequentially, And Have To Be Read Or Listened To In Time.

The Tremendous Efficiency And Economy Of The Book Has Once Again Demonstrated Itself. It's The World's Most Patient Medium.

The Ups And Downs Of This Cosmos May Sometimes Be Acknowledged To Be Metaphorical Ups And Downs, But Until About Newton's Time Most People Took The "up" Of Heaven And The "down" Of Hell To Be More Or Less Descriptive.

Literature As A Whole Is Not An Aggregate Of Exhibits With Red And Blue Ribbons Attached To Them, Like A Cat-show, But The Range Of Articulate Human Imagination As It Extends From The Height Of Imaginative Heaven To The Depth Of Imaginative Hell.

To Bring Anything Really To Life In Literature We Can't Be Lifelike: We Have To Be Literature-like