"When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following p…"

"I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean…"

"Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and …"

"What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-…"

"In the old romanticism the poem was an uncommon effect of common experience on the poet. All interest in the poem cen…"

"All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write lite…"

"The group is only interested in the formal publishing of individuals for the purpose of establishing their social sol…"

"The object of group truth is group-confirmation and perpetuation; while individual truth has no object other than dis…"

"We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all…"

"Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived…"