I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.
Tragedy is a literary concept.
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.