Who said “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”?

“It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”

“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

“God is only a great imaginative experience.”

“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”

“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.”

“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.”

“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”