Quotes About Author

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

I no longer believe in literary schools now; I believe in the individual.

We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.

Yo he escrito también algunos cuentos en los cuales traté ambiciosa e inultimente de ser Kafka

Un atributo de lo infernal es la irrealidad, un atributo que parece mitigar sus terrores y que los agrava tal vez.

Haiku'yu biliyorum, iki üç hecede Bir an?, bir yank?y?, bir esriyiÅŸi yakalayan.

despertaba ese incompatible rencor que sólo causan la inteligencia, la gracia y la pedantería francesas [...]

Mi deplorable condición de argentino me impedirá incurrir en el ditirambo — género obligatorio en el Uruguay—, cuando el tema es un uruguayo.

Let no one reduce us to the status of ascetics. There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.

The Last Judgement is the Last Judgement, but a human being who spent his life in Russia, has to be, without any hesitation, placed into Paradise.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides

You changed the definition of a myth from the search for meaning to the experience of meaning. CAMPBELL: Experience of life.

beginning of my interest in comparative mythology.

They come from every culture but with timeless themes. CAMPBELL: The themes are timeless, and the inflection is to the culture.

The second is a cosmological dimension, the dimension with which science is concerned—showing you what the shape of the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes through.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.

breaking of the celebratory mood. For George Kearns, one of the most perceptive of Pound's readers