The unity of a great era is generally an illusion.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

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.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.