Culture Means Control Over Nature.

If The Americans, In Addition To The Eagle And The Stars And Stripes And The More Unofficial Symbols Of Bison, Moose And Indian, Should Ever Need Another Emblem, One Which Is Friendly And Pleasant, Then I Think They Should Choose The Grapefruit. Or Rather The Half Grapefruit, For This Fruit Only Comes In Halves, I Believe. Practically Speaking, It Is Always Yellow, Always Just As Fresh And Well Served. And It Always Comes At The Same, Still Hopeful Hour Of The Morning.

If A Serious Statement Is Defined As One That May Be Made In Terms Of Waking Life, Poetry Will Never Rise To The Level Of Seriousness. It Lies Beyond Seriousness, On That More Primitive And Original Level Where The Child, The Animal, The Savage, And The Seer Belong, In The Region Of Dream, Enchantment, Ecstasy, Laughter. To Understand Poetry We Must Be Capable Of Donning The Child's Soul Like A Magic Cloak And Of Forsaking Man's Wisdom For The Child's.

The Second Fundamental Feature Of Culture Is That All Culture Has An Element Of Striving.

History, As The Study Of The Past, Makes The Coherence Of What Happened Comprehensible By Reducing Events To A Dramatic Pattern And Seeming Them In A Simple Form.

An Aristocratic Culture Does Not Advertise Its Emotions. In Its Forms Of Expression It Is Sober And Reserved. Its General Attitude Is Stoic.