Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced

I Think The Hardest Thing To Teach A Student Is That What He Or She Puts Down On Paper Is Changeable. It's Not The Final Thing, It's The First Thing, Which May Just Be The Suggestive, Vague Identification Of Something That You Have To Come Back To And Rewrite.

If You Read Quickly To Get Through A Poem To What It Means, You Have Missed The Body Of The Poem.

Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At Least, Easier Reading.

When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.

The Theories Of The Major Philosophers Of The 18th Century Secular Enlightenment Were Biblical And Theological In Spite Of Themselves.