Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.