I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
“The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.”
“The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.”