“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high auth...”

“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”

“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”

“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and...”

“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”