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

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

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.

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

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