Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.