We Have To Look At The Figures

The Supremacy Of The Verbal Over The Monumental Has Something About It Of The Supremacy Of Life Over Death.

Literature Begins With The Possible Model Of Experience, And What It Produces Is The Literary Model We Call The Classic.

Metaphors Of Unity And Integration Take Us Only So Far, Because They Are Derived From The Finiteness Of The Human Mind.

Man Lives, Not Directly Or Nakedly In Nature Like The Animals, But Within A Mythological Universe, A Body Of Assumptions And Beliefs Developed From His Existential Concerns.

Just As A New Scientific Discovery Manifests Something That Was Already Latent In The Order Of Nature, And At The Same Time Is Logically Related To The Total Structure Of The Existing Science, So The New Poem Manifests Something That Was Already Latent In The Order Of Words.