"Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression. … by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words a…"

"The Thousand and One Nights, with its magnificent apparatus of genii and afrits, is the greatest work of fantasy that…"

"It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal …"

"Such is our ideal – not another museum, another bleak exhibition gallery, another classical building in which insulat…"

"I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, …"

"The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm…"

"Art is most simply and most usually defined as an attempt to create pleasing forms. Such forms satisfy our sense of b…"

"To stop the war, besides being a futile gesture, would leave the crisis unresolved. It would postpone the necessity o…"

"The aesthetic canons of Puritanism or Iconoclasm have little relevance to the facts of art, in so far as these facts …"

"All revolutions in modern times, Camus points out, have led to a reinforcement of the power of the State. "The strang…"