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.

America is a lunatic asylum.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'