"The age of the book is almost gone."

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."

"Literary criticism should arise out of a debt of love. In a manner evident and yet mysterious, the poem or the drama …"

"We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantast…"

"Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement."

"There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed ma…"

"Tragedy springs from outrage; it protests at the conditions of life. It carries in it the possibilities of disorder, …"

"Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure ho…"

"Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias towa…"

"The ordinary man casts a shadow. In a way we do not quite understand, the man of genius casts light. Instinctively, w…"