1. “We who are liberal and progressive know that know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
2. “This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”
3. “Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”
4. “Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
5. “When misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless o make oneself understood.”
6. “There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.”
7. “The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.”
8. “Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”
9. “Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity an difficulty.”
10. “It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”
