Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

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

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.