To Be A Poet Did Not Occur

Literature Is Achieved Anxiety.

If We Read The Western Canon In Order To Form Our Social, Political, Or Personal Moral Values, I Firmly Believe We Will Become Monsters Of Selfishness And Exploitation.

To Read In The Service Of Any Ideology Is Not, In My Judgment, To Read At All.

In The Finest Critics One Hears The Full Cry Of The Human. They Tell One Why It Matters To Read.

The Idea Of Herman Melville In A Writing Class Is Always Distressing To Me.