Poetry Can Only Be Made Out Of

Even The Human Heart Is Slightly Left Of Centre.

The Primary And Literal Meaning Of The Bible, Then, Is Its Centripetal Or Poetic Meaning.

Characters Tend To Be Either For Or Against The Quest. If They Assist It, They Are Idealized As Simply Gallant Or Pure; If They Obstruct It, They Are Characterized As Simply Villainous Or Cowardly. Hence Every Typical Character...tends To Have His Moral Opposite Confronting Him, Like Black And White Pieces In A Chess Game.

The Fact That Creative Powers Come From An Area Of The Mind That Seems To Be Independent Of The Conscious Will, And Often Emerge With A Good Deal Of Emotional Disturbance In Their Wake, Provides The Chief Analogy Between Prophecy And The Arts... Some People Pursue Wholeness And Integration, Others Get Smashed Up, And Fragments Are Rescued From The Smash Of An Intensity That The Wholeness And Integration People Do Not Reach.

War Appeals To Young Men Because It Is Fundamentally Auto-eroticism.