“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
“He was a great poet" They lamented.No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?”
“Great poets are great copy editors.”
“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”
“A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?”
“Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.”