Culture's Essential Service To A Religion Is

For The Serious Mediocre Writer Convention Makes Him Sound Like A Lot Of Other People; For The Popular Writer It Gives Him A Formula He Can Exploit; For The Serious Good Writer It Releases His Experiences Or Emotions From Himself And Incorporates Them Into Literature, Where They Belong.

The Objective World Is The Order Of Nature, Thinking Or Reflection Follows The Suggestions Of Sense Experience, And Words Are The Servomechanisms Of Reflection.

It Seems To Me That Canadian Sensibility Has Been Profoundly Disturbed, Not So Much By Our Famous Problem Of Identity, Important As That Is, As By A Series Of Paradoxes In What Confronts That Identity. It Is Less Perplexed By The Question "who Am I?" Than By Some Such Riddle As "where Is Here?

Physics Is An Organized Body Of Knowledge About Nature, And A Student Of It Says That He Is Learning Physics, Not Nature. Art, Like Nature, Has To Be Distinguished From The Systematic Study Of It, Which Is Criticism.

To Bring Anything Really To Life In Literature We Can't Be Lifelike: We Have To Be Literature-like