We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.