A Crude Mind Could Easily

Systematic Philosophical And Practical Anti-intellectualism Such As We Are Witnessing Appears To Be Something Truly Novel In The History Of Human Culture.

If A Serious Statement Is Defined As One That May Be Made In Terms Of Waking Life, Poetry Will Never Rise To The Level Of Seriousness. It Lies Beyond Seriousness, On That More Primitive And Original Level Where The Child, The Animal, The Savage, And The Seer Belong, In The Region Of Dream, Enchantment, Ecstasy, Laughter. To Understand Poetry We Must Be Capable Of Donning The Child's Soul Like A Magic Cloak And Of Forsaking Man's Wisdom For The Child's.

The Susceptibility Of The Average Modern To Pictorial Suggestion Enables Advertising To Exploit His Lessened Power Of Judgment.

What The Study Of History And Artistic Creation Have In Common Is A Mode Of Forming Images.

It Is The Goal Of The American University To Be The Brains Of The Republic.