A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

By that which you kill are you bound.

The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build on.

Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.

The world is full of beauty as other worlds above And if we did our duty it might be as full of love.

Socialism means slavery.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.