I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

How To Read and Why.

the best living poet.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.

According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.