“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing)”
“In order for love to exist, there has to be an affinity of thoughts, affinity of feelings, identical preoccupations.”
“You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.”
“There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.”
“...after I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with a butter knife at a party in my own home.”
“There is nothing more potentially hostile than the indigenous ego interpreting the laws of his conqueror upon his own people”