They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say 'Can he name a kitten?'

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches copies of copies until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity doubt uncertainty not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material but because that is the way we humans really are.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake art that stands above classes art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Literature is a state of culture poetry is a state of grace before and after culture.

Probably induced by the asthma I started reading and writing early on my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature especially in lyric poetry.