Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

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

I am not the Hero of this story Bob is~ Aarush Kashyap

I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

I finished my career the way I wanted to.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.