He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with...

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every...

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every...

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other...

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other...

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything...

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything...

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A good poet's made as well as born.

A good poet's made as well as born.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what...

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what...

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful...

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful...

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved...

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved...

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one...

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one...

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only...

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only...