Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.

Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you, because it is
at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.

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