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.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.