Once one has read his first poem he turns to his second and to the others that will follow thereafter with an increasing series of preconceptions about the sort of activity in which he is indulging. In matters of literary experience, as in other experiences, one is a virgin but once.

- Krieger, Murray. Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System. qtd in “Dancing Through the Minefield” by Annette Kolodny.