The Supremacy Of The Verbal Over The

In The World Of The Imagination, Anything Goes That's Imaginatively Possible, But Nothing Really Happens.

Those Who Are Concerned With The Arts Are Often Asked Questions, Not Always Sympathetic Ones, About The Use Or Value Of What They Are Doing. It Is Probably Impossible To Answer Such Questions Directly, Or At Any Rate To Answer The People Who Ask Them.

Literature Speaks The Language Of The Imagination, And The Study Of Literature Is Supposed To Train And Improve The Imagination.

Separatism Is A Very Healthy Movement Within Culture. It's A Disastrous Movement Within Politics And Economics.

There Is A Curious Law Of Art... That Even The Attempt To Reproduce The Act Of Seeing, When Carried Out With Sufficient Energy, Tends To Lose Its Realism And Take On The Unnatural Glittering Intensity Of Hallucination.