Teaching Literature Is Impossible; That Is Why

In The World Of The Imagination, Anything Goes That's Imaginatively Possible, But Nothing Really Happens.

The Supremacy Of The Verbal Over The Monumental Has Something About It Of The Supremacy Of Life Over Death.

The Simplest Questions Are The Hardest To Answer.

The Simple Point Is That Literature Belongs To The World Man Constructs, Not To The World He Sees; To His Home, Not His Environment.

Man Is Constantly Building Anxiety-structures, Like Geodesic Domes, Around His Social And Religious Institutions.